Psychology 1000 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Static Program Analysis, Ethnic Group, Operational Definition

• School: Western University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 1000
• Professor: Dr.Mike

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Intelligence: the ability to acquire knowledge, to think and reason effectively, and to deal adaptively with the environment. Binet: believed intelligence was a collection of higher-order abilities: no correlation (you can be good at math but not reading, the ability results from learning (not inheritance) 2 assumptions: mental abilities develop with age, rate at which people gain mental competence is a characteristic of the person and fairly consistent over time. Mental age: standardized mental level for every age: developed standardized interviews to determine if the child was performing at correct mental age. If schools were based off mental age, education would be enhanced. Intelligence quotient (iq): mental age/chronological age x 100: problem: less useful for adults. Many basic skills measured by intelligence tests are acquired by age 16. Some intellectual skills decline at advanced ages. Toda(cid:455)"s iq: based o(cid:374) pe(cid:396)so(cid:374)"s performance relative to scores of other people the same age, 100 corresponds to average.