PSY 202- Final Exam Guide - Comprehensive Notes for the exam ( 123 pages long!)
29 Mar 2018
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Conceptualizing intelligence: sensory capacity, galton: knowledge comes through the senses (would test your hearing, sight, etc. for intelligence) Better senses, better acquisition of knowledge (for a test, he would for example have you lift two differently weighted objects) Problem 1; better types of sensory capacities (ex. Problem 2; measures of sensory ability were not correlated with other assessments of intelligence. Based off research his theory didn"t really hold up, largely debunked: helen keller? (had no sensory capacities in two domains, abstract thinking. Binet and simon: goal was to identify students who might require additional instruction. Test measured abstract thinking; capacity to understand hypothetical concepts rather than concepts in the here and no: determining similarity between two objects, constructing sentences from three words, high correlation among items. A separate factor s (specific intelligence) is unique to each particular test: ex. spatial reasoning, verbal reasoning, analytical reasoning.
