[PSYC 1200] - Midterm Exam Guide - Comprehensive Notes for the exam (36 pages long!)

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Intelligence testing began with galton: believed since people learn about the world through our senses those with superior sensory abilities would learn more about the world. Sensory abilities should be an indicator of a persons intelligence. Anthropometrics - methods of measuring physical and mental variation in humans. Cattell brought this is usa and it was showed that peoples abilities on sensory tests were not correlated with each other nor did they predict their grades. Intelligence and thinking: the stanford - binet test. Binet - intelligence should be indicated by complex thinking such as memory, attention. Intelligence - the ability to think, understand, reason, and adapt to over overcome obstacles: the current way to view it. Binet and simon made a test to test this - and established the average score for each age. The child"s test score measure their mental age - average intellectual ability score for children of a specific age.