PSYCH212 Chapter Notes - Chapter 4: Cognitive Abilities Test, Intelligence Quotient, Theory Of Multiple Intelligences
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Verbal ability, problem-solving skills, and the ability to adapt to and learn from life"s everyday experiences. Often focused on individual differences and assessment: the stable, consistent ways in which people are different from one another. Include the wechsler pre-school and primary scale of intelligence-third ed. (wppsi-iii) to test 2 to 7, 4th edition for children and adolescents 6-16 years of age: measures verbal iq and performance iq. Verbal iq, includes verbal comprehension and working memory. Performance iq includes perceptual reasoning and processing speed: 4 subscales comprised of 15 subsets. Vocabulary, similarities, information, digit span, arithmetic, block design, matrix reasoning, picture completion, and digit symbol coding. Individual tests provides the psychologist with an opportunity to sample the student"s behaviour: ex. degree of tolerance for frustration, anxiety , enthusiasm. Early views: binet and stern, focused on concept of general intelligence, called iq, thurstone said people have 7 specific abilities.