PSYA02H3 Study Guide - Syllogism, Toilet Training, Fetus
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Williams syndrome (retardation) absence of 20 genes on chromosome 7, impairs general cognitive abilities, leaves them with a talent for music and language. Intelligence: the ability to direct ones thinking, adapt to one s circumstances and learn from ones experiences. Henry goddard administered an intelligence test and thought that stupid individuals be segregated and not allowed to procreate. Such tests were first developed to help underprivileged students excel in school. Psychologist alfred binet and physician theodore simon were called upon to develop a test that would help predict the success of a child in the classroom. The test they developed tested a child s natural intelligence (a child s natural aptitude for learning independent of the child s prior educational achievement) William stern mental level should be thought as a child s mental age and the best way to determine whether a child was developing normally was to examine the child s mental age to the child s physical age.
