PSYA02H3 Chapter Notes - Chapter 10: Confirmatory Factor Analysis, Louis Leon Thurstone, Fluid And Crystallized Intelligence

• School: UTSC
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYA02H3
• Professor: Steve Joordens

Document Summary

Intelligence is the ability to direct one"s thinking, adapt to one"s circumstances, and learn from one"s experiences. Few things are more dangerous than a man with a mission. In the 1920s, psychologist henry goddard administered intelligence tests to arriving immigrants at ellis island and concluded that the overwhelming majority of jews, hungarians, italians, and. When anyone has offended you and asks you to excuse him, what ought you to do? . Binet and simon designed their test to measure a child"s aptitude for learning independent of the child"s prior educational achievement, and it was in this sense that they called theirs a test of. For example, a child who was 10 years old but whose score was about the same as the score of the average 8-year-old was considered to have the mental level of an 8-year-old and thus to need remedial education.