PSYCH 111 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Theory Of Multiple Intelligences, Muscle Tone, Congenital Heart Defect

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Intelligence: historically defined by how we measure it. Alfred binet: developed intelligence tests to identify slow learners to develop remed. Aptitude: ability to learn or gain proficiency in an area. Achievement: measures the amount of information a person has acquired. Mental age: based on ability not chronological age. A child with a mental age of 6 and chronological age of 5 would have the same age of 12 and chronological age of 10. Newer tests were developed with norms for all age groups based on a standar. Stanford-binet and wechsler intelligence tests are still used today. Results in a verbal iq, performance iq and full scale iq score. Based on norms for the population: 100 is the mean; normal range: 85-115. The flynn effect: james flynn found that from one generation to the next there ha scores cross culturally. Hypotheses: more time in school better educated parents, better nutrition, broader. Wechsler adult intelligence scale most recently revised in 2008.

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