Psychology 1000 Chapter Notes - Chapter 10: Advantageous, Testees, Catatonia

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

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Intelligence: doesn"t necessarily mean being smart, definition: ability to acquire knowledge, think, reason effectively, deal adaptively with environment, galton, cousin of darwin, influenced by notion of evolution, thought that eminent people (intelligent ones) inherited their intelligence. Disregarded fact that those who were more successful were from privileged environment. With no correlation between those things: created intelligence test, test assumed that mental abilities develop with age and are proportional to age. Constant rate of increase of mental competence: his tests yielded a mental age. Comparison of mental age relative to scores of average child of that age: william stern"s intelligence quotient (iq) Ratio of mental age to chronological age x 100. Screened us army recruits in wwi: wechsler . Created a new test: wais (wechsler adult intelligence scale), wisc (wechsler intelligence scale for children) and wppsi (wechsler. Preschool and primary scale of intelligence: wechsler adult intelligence scale (wais iv) also wisc iv. Devised tests for adults and also for kids.