PSY 101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 14: Fluid And Crystallized Intelligence, Intellectual Disability, Intelligence Quotient
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A lot of disagreement on the definition. The global capacity to think rationally, act purposefully, profit from experience, and deal with the environment. Developed test to identify french students who needed more educational attention. Emphasized the use of many subtests to calculate an overall score. Binet believed intelligence was tied to age. Iq = ( mental age / chronological age) x 100. Today"s tests are based on performance relative to the scores of a large sample of people the same age. 85 115 are the 16th & 84th percentiles: 85 is borderline, 115 is a gifted intelligence score. 70 130 are the 2nd and 98th percentiles: 70 is the upper threshold for an intellectual disability, 130 is the bottom threshold for a genius. Today, intelligence tests measure a variety of things: general knowledge, vocab, memory, math, spatial relationships, logical reasoning, sequencing. Subtests on intelligence tests are highly correlated indicating an overall general intelligence: cattell. Crystallized knowledge and skills, increases w/age.
