PSY 112 Lecture Notes - Lecture 73: Lewis Terman

• School: Pace University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSY 112
• Professor: Siporin

Document Summary

Intelligence: ability to think, learn from experience, solve problems, & adapt to new situations. Language: system of communication that uses symbols in a regular way to create meaning: gives the ability to communicate intelligence to others by talking, reading, & writing. Goal was to help teachers better educate 2 groups of students: developed first intelligence test. Consisted of wide variety of questions that included ability to: Construct sentences: believed questions asked all assessed basic abilities to understand, reason, & make judgments. Correlations among different types of measures were all positive. General intelligence factor (g): construct that different & and skills measured on intelligence tests have in common: many psychologists believe there"s a generalized intelligence factor that relates to abstract thinking & includes abilities to: According to (cid:498)g(cid:499), ppl w/ higher general intelligence learn faster: lewis terman (1877 1956), developed american version of binet"s test.