PSYA02H3 Chapter Notes - Chapter 9: Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale, Stereotype Threat
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Galton believed that because people learn about the world through their senses, those with superior sensory abilities would be more sensitively attuned to the world, and able to learn more about it. Sensory abilities should be an indicator of intelligence. Anthropometrics methods of measuring physical and mental variation in humans. Alfred binet, argued that intelligence should be indicated by more complex thinking processes, such as memory, attention, and comprehension. Intelligence as the ability to think, understand, reason, and adapt to or overcome obstacles. In 1904, binet and his colleague, theodore simon, were hired by the french government to develop a test to measure intelligence. Stanford-binet test as a test intended to measure innate levels of intelligence (defined by terman) Mental age the average intellectual ability score for children of a specific age. If a 7 year olds score is within the average score of a 7 year old then their mental age is.
