PSYA02H3 Chapter Notes - Chapter 9: Genomics, Fluid And Crystallized Intelligence, Nootropic

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

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James mckeen cattell: tested people in u. s: research revealed: people"s a(cid:271)ilities o(cid:374) differe(cid:374)t sensory tests were not correlated with each other (only weakly) O(cid:374)e"s e(cid:455)esight a(cid:271)ilit(cid:455) (cid:449)ould(cid:374)"t help predi(cid:272)t their heari(cid:374)g. If two (cid:373)easures do(cid:374)"t (cid:272)orrelate well with ea(cid:272)h other, the(cid:374) they (cid:272)a(cid:374)"t (cid:271)oth (cid:271)e indicators of the same time (i. e. intelligence: galto(cid:374)"s approa(cid:272)h to (cid:373)easuri(cid:374)g i(cid:374)tellige(cid:374)(cid:272)e (cid:449)as ge(cid:374)erall(cid:455) a(cid:271)a(cid:374)do(cid:374)ed. Intelligence and thinking: the stanford binet test: prominent french psychologist: alfred binet, argued intelligence = indicated by more complex thinking. Intelligence quotient (iq): cal(cid:272)ulated (cid:271)(cid:455) taki(cid:374)g a perso(cid:374)"s mental age, dividing it by his chronological age, then multiplying by 100: proble(cid:373): me(cid:374)tal age a(cid:374)d iq did(cid:374)"t ge(cid:374)eralize to adult populations. Are 80-year-old twice as intelligent at 40- year-old: given that iq becomes constant after about age. 16, it means that adults get progressively less smart with every year: deviation iq: is (cid:272)al(cid:272)ulated (cid:271)(cid:455) (cid:272)o(cid:373)pari(cid:374)g the perso(cid:374)"s test s(cid:272)ore with the average score for people of the same age, to calc.