PSY 120 Lecture Notes - Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale, Intelligence Quotient, Psychometrics
Document Summary
Cognitive consistency: they are inadequate, distortions: overcoming our cognitive biases. A way to overcome, looking at all the evidence; not just the evidence that supports the appropriate conclusion: cognitive biases are less likely under certain conditions, expertise and education, serious consequences, understand bias . Psychometrics (measurese: disagreements exist on the nature of intelligence. Trying to measure intelligence: factor analysis is a procedure: sort or analyze certain facts and put them into different groups or categories. Sorts and measures difference mental abilities: general [g] factor the sum of a variation types of intelligence. Measure the intellectual development for children for early intervention. Worked with slow children, to improved their iq: measured a child"s mental age (ma): the age of the abilities one is performing at, compared mental age to chronological age (ca) to yield. Retarded [50-70, 20-50] anything less than 70. Not based on iq alone, it"s on functioning and adaptively of the person.
