PSYC 213 Chapter Notes - Chapter 12: Fluid And Crystallized Intelligence, Intelligence Quotient, Neuroplasticity
21 Mar 2013
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Pysc 213: the concept of intelligence: historical background. The concept of intelligence has been accomplished by means of intelligence tests. Intelligence test, vary in form and content, but they tend to be similar to the original one invented by binet in collaboration with theophile simon. Wanted to develop a test to measure the extent which a child could benefit from schooling. Designed to discriminate between normally and subnormally intelligent children. Intelligence was defined as: a fundamental faculty, the alteration or lack of which is of the utmost importance for practical life. Their items are arranged in a real order of increasing difficulty. Allows children to be compared in terms of mental age (age level of the items a child can pass) Stanford-binet: made the eqution for iq (intelligence quotient) scale, a useful measure of intelligence could be obtained by dividing the person"s mental age (ma) by his chronological age (ca) Normal children will have the iq of 100.
