PSYC 1010 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Mental Age, Achievement Test, Content Validity

• School: York University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 1010
• Professor: Rebecca Jubis

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January 18 2018 intelligence (29, 30, 31, 32) Intelligence mental potential to learn from experience, solve problems and use. Believed intelligence came from ability to detect low sounds. He believed physical features determined intelligence (big head = big brain) 1905 binet involves mental abilities, not physical or visual abilities to remember, to reason etc. Mental age referred to a kid"s performance on a test, expressed in years, compared to typical performance at that age. Formula: mental age divided by chronological age times by 100. If ma > ca than iq is above average. If ma < ca than iq is below average. You compare your score to the scores of others of the same age group. Average performance is set at 100 for each age group. You see how far your score deviates from the average score. Analytical intelligence abilities to solve problems, compare and contrast, Creative intelligence abilities to invent, discover, suppose or theorize.