PSY BEH 11C Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Job Performance, Heritability, Theory Of Multiple Intelligences
29 May 2016
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Alfred binet, the originator of intelligence tests, sought to identify children who would benefit from remedial education. Binet understood intelligence to be a general attribute, applicable to a very wide range of mental tasks. He measured intelligence by means of a comparison between a child"s mental age and her chronological age. Intelligence tests have been developed for various uses, including the wais. This test has high test- retest reliability, even with gaps of many decades between the first test and subsequent tests. The test also seems valid, as indicated by correlations between iq and academic performance, job performance, and other measurements. The psychometric approach to intelligence seeks to understand intelligence by scrutinizing patterns among the test scores. One aspect of this approach is an examination of how different elements within the test are intercorrelated. These intercorrelations are readily observed, suggesting that all of the diverse subtests within the iq test overlap in the abilities they are assessing.
