PSY30400 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Lewis Terman, Standard Deviation, Factor Analysis
Intelligence
• Assessing Intelligence:
o a ethod for assessig a idividuals etal aptitudes ad oparig the
with others using numerical scores
• Alfred Binet:
o practiced a more modern form of intelligence testing, developing questions to
predit a hilds future progress i the Paris shool syste
• Intelligence:
o the global capacity to act purposefully, to think rationally, and to deal effectively
with the environment around a person
• Binet-Simon Test:
o teachers identified 50 children as average
o sorig deteried the hilds etal age, deteried y the age level of the
items that they got right, allowing them to be compared in terms of their
cognitive skills and knowledge
• Lewis Terman:
o adapted Biets test for Aeria shool hildre ad aed it the Staford-
Binet
o formula for IQ= mental age/chronological age x 100
o modern variant: IQ= 100+(score-mean)/standard deviation x 15
o quantitative
o eugenics:
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