Psychology 1000 Chapter 10: Intelligence

• School: Western University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 1000
• Professor: Terry Biggs

Document Summary

Intelligence is the ability to acquire knowledge, to think and reason effectively, and to deal adaptively with the environment. Intelligence in historical perspective y contributions of sir francis galton and alfred binet were key in the study and measurement of mental skills, and set the stage for later attempts to measure intelligence and discover its causes. Alfred binet s mental tests y binet made two assumptions about intelligence: Standardized interview , was expanded by german psychologist william stern to provide a relative score for people of different chronological ages y stern s intelligence quotient (iq) was the ratio of mental age to chronological age, multiplied by 100: In 1939, the wechsler adult intelligence scale (wais) appeared, followed by the wechsler intelligence scale for. Children (wisc) in 1955 y the wechsler scales have undergone several revisions today, the wechsler tests (wais-iii and wisc-iv) are the most popular individually administered intelligence tests in north america.