PSYC 1010 Lecture 7: CH. 9 Intelligence & Psychological Testing

• School: York University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 1010
• Professor: Doug Mc Cann

Document Summary

Subjects: reading english, history, etc, personality tests measure various aspects of personality, including motives, Techniques. : correlation coefficient a numerical index of the degree of relationship between 2. Hypothetical construct: evolution of intelligence testing, sir francis galton, intelligence is governed by heredity. Nurture: lewis terman & stanford-binet intelligence scale, lewis terman, revised binet tests in 1916, intelligence quotient (iq) a child"s mental age divided by chronological age, Multiplied by 100: makes it possible to compare children of different ages. Patterns, demonstrate memory: meaning of iq scores, normal distribution symmetric, bell-shaped curve that represents the pattern in. Which many characteristics are dispersed in the population: deviation iq scores locate subjects precisely within the normal distribution, using. Standard deviation as the unit of measurement: modern iq scores indicate exactly where you fall in the normal distribution of. Intelligence tests & success: people who score high on iq tests are more likely than those who score low to end-