PSY 202 Chapter Notes - Chapter 9-11: Midlife Crisis, Concurrent Validity, Stereotype Threat
28 Dec 2017
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Chapter 9 intelligence and iq testing study notes: Child prodigy- an individual who displays astounding intellectual achievements at an early age. Proposed a radical hypothesis: intelligence is the by-product of sensory capacity. Reasoned that most knowledge comes through the senses. Assumed that people with superior sensory capacities (like hearing and smell) should acquire more knowledge than other people. This theory was proven wrong respectfully by hellen keller. To galton, hellen keller would be the lowest of the low in regards to how intelligent a human can be. Developed a psychological test that would identify students who might need extra help in their certain abilities. They developed the first intelligence test that tested basic abilities like naming objects, generating the meaning of words, drawing pictures from memory, and completing incomplete sentences. Was a diagnostic tool to measure higher mental processes/abstract thinking. The frontal lobe separates us from other animals because it is capable of abstract thought.
