PSYC 101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 16: Unit, Learning Disability, Specific Developmental Disorder
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Intelligence: history, alfred binet (1904) created the first modern intelligence test. Placed on a committee that"s job was to help find students who could use special education programs. The binet measured the students mental age a score corresponding to the age level of most-advanced items a child could answer correctly: lewis terman adjusted the binet into english. Now known as the sandford-binet intelligence scale (sb: new tests were developed to measure military recruits before world war i. Army alpha test vs. army beta test. 47% of the recruits scored at a mental age of 13 or lower: david wechsler (1939) Personal attributes that center around skill at information processing, problem solving, and adapting to new or changing environments : the definition cannot be agreed upon, nature vs. nurture. Intelligence theory: cattell-horn-carroll (chc) most well established theory for intelligence, used for the bases of most intelligence tests, g a general intelligence factor. Fluid intelligence the ability to reason and problem solve.
