PSYA02H3 Final: PSYAO2 Full Notes Chpt 9-17
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PSYA02H3 Full Course Notes
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Intelligence: is the ability to think, understand, reason and cognitively adapt to and overcome obstacles. (intelligence is not based only on how much you know but how you can apply it to solve problems) Achievement and aptitude: achievement tests: measures knowledge and thinking skills that an individual has acquired (ex. Standardization and norms: standardized test: a test that has a set of question or problems that are administered and scored in a uniform way across a large number of individuals ( standardized) Intelligence scores can be compared because of the existence of norms: norms: statistic that allow individual to be evaluated relative to a typical or standard score. A score of 85 has percentile rank of approximately . 16 indicting that 16% of the population scores below it: diagram: Approaches to intelligence testing: intelligence test can be measured by multiple choice test but also assessment of brain size and reaction to stimuli is used.
