PSY 2105 Study Guide - Siemens S200, Habituation
Document Summary
Defining intelligence: difficult to find consensus, intelligent behaviors change with age, most people suggest, verbal ability, practical problem-solving, social competence. Bayley scales: academic subjects, achievement against month of age, habituation, hand manipulation, wechsler test most popular for kids, stanford- binet kids and adults. A normal distribution: child compared to norm of age group, most peoples iq fall around 100. When tests are close together: absolute scores, examines same childs profile of scores over repeated testings, most children fluctuate, some increase or decrease with age. Correlated with achievement test scores, grades, staying in school. Iq predicts adult attainment well, but not perfectly. Personality, practical intelligence also important: sometimes more related to street smarts. Low iq related to school failure, aggression, delinquency. Iq similarity among relatives: kids who are adopted have higher iqs that their adoptive families, but less than the adoptive family, environmental component, adoptions and iq, the flynn effect, gathered data, generational increase in iq.
