PSY 101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Divergent Thinking, Heritability, Eugenics
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Intelligence: measurement, reliability: consistent measurement, validity, e. g. weight scale, mental measurements: sat, gre, gmat, mcat, content validity: the extent to which a test samples the behavior that is of interest, e. g. Driving test for a driver"s license: predictive validity : the success with which a test predicts the behavior it is designed to predict. History: galton, eugenics: breeding genetic superiority, abject failure, started the movement to quantify mental measurement. 1: original purpose was to identify children who were not up to speed so. Iq test they could get them remedial programs. Iq tests: reliability, validity, no agreement on one definition of what intelligence is, good measurement of school abilities. >multiple intelligences: linguistic- -word smarts, logical - mathematical-- logical smarts, spatia l-- picture smarts, mystical- -music smarts, body- kinesthetic- - body smarts, intrapersonal- - self smarts, intrapersonal-- people smarts, naturalist- - nature smarts. Group differences do not refer to individuals, these are averages.
