PSYC 10213 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Kobe Bryant, Ludwig Van Beethoven, Helen Keller
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Sir francis galton (1884) intelligence is a byproduct of sensory capacity. Alfred binet and henri simon (1904) first intelligence test. Coined mental age you may be 19 but mental age may be 17 or 35. Stern (1912) (mental age/chronological age) * 100 = iq. Deviation iq (1939) normal curve; 50%, 90% Compared to people your age taking the exam, how you deviate from others your age, then determine from that distribution where you fall. In 1921, a forum of 14 experts agreed: The (cid:272)apa(cid:272)ity t (cid:396)easo(cid:374) (cid:449)ell a(cid:374)d lea(cid:396)(cid:374) (cid:395)ui(cid:272)kly (cid:894)to thi(cid:374)k o(cid:374) o(cid:374)e"s feet(cid:895) The ability of amass large amounts of knowledge. Whatever attributes enable success in that culture. Amazon tribes an understanding of the medicinal qualities of local plants. Papa new guineans remember clan names; over 850 clan names. Caroline islanders ability to navigate by the stars; over 500 islands. Items on the binent-simon test seem to correlate well. Charles spearman (1927) g for general intelligence.
