PSYA02H3 Chapter Notes - Chapter 9: Flynn Effect, Lewis Terman, Gene Knockout
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Sensory abilities should be an indicator of one"s intelligence. -> methods of measuring physical and mental variation in humans. Problem: if two measure"s don"t correlate well with each other, then they can"t both be indicators of the same thing. -> thus, galton"s approach to measuring intelligence was generally abandoned. Alfred binet argued that intelligence should be indicate by more compelx thinking processes like memory, attention and comprehension. Intelligence: ability to think, understand, reason, and adapt to or overcome obstacles. Binet argued a child"s test score measure their mental age: average intellectual ability score for children of a specific age. Belief: child with a mental age lower than chronological age would be expected to struggle in school and require remedial education. Standord- binet test: test intended to measure innate levels of intelligence (*described by terman) ->binet instead viewed this test as a measure of a child"s current abilities, not a measure of innate capacity.
