Psychology 1000 Chapter Notes - Chapter 10: University Of Western Ontario, Heritability, Syphilis

• School: Western University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 1000
• Professor: Prof

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Definition: ability to acquire knowledge, to think and reason effectively and to deal adaptively with the environment. Showed eminence and genius seemed to occur within certain families. Eminent people had inherited mental constitutions that made them more fit for thinking than their less successful counterparts biological basis. Showing people who were more socially & occupationally successful would perform better on a variety of tasks measuring efficiency of the nervous system. Modern intelligence-testing movement began at turn of the 20th century. Alfred binet was commissioned to develop a modern intelligence test. Made two assumptions about intelligence: mental abilities develop with age, rate at which people gain mental competence is a characteristic of person and is fairly constant over time. Result of the test was score called mental age. Mental age concept expanded by stern to intelligence quotient (iq: ratio of mental age to chronological age, multiplied by 100. Repeat a list of words or digits (car, dog)