Psychology 1000 Chapter Notes - Chapter 10: Army Alpha, Standard Deviation, Internal Consistency

• School: Western University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 1000
• Professor: Dr.Mike

Document Summary

Intelligence is the ability to acquire knowledge, think and reason effectively and deal adaptively with the environment: a host of abilities encompass intelligence. A psychologist named spearman decided that intelligence needed better statistics; he looked for patterns of correlation which gives individuals a g" factor: all the tests must be correlated for this to work, however. In the 20th century, alfred binet was commissioned by the french ministry of public education to create a test: binet made 2 assumptions while creating that test: Results from the testing would indicate the child"s mental age. The concept of mental age was adapted by william stern, a german psychologist who created the iq by using: while this was able to be used on children, the stern"s quotient does not apply on adults. Lewis terman, a professor at stanford, was intrigued by binet"s work.