PSYA02H3 Chapter 9: Psychology Chapter 9 - TEXTBOOK.docx

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

Document Summary

Anthropomtric is methods of measuring physical & mental variation in humans. This allowed him to measure sensory abilities of many ppl in england. Alfred binet was a french psychologist who argued that intelligence should be indicated in a more complex thinking processes (memory, attention, & comprehension) Saying a word then saying a scentence repeadily. Explain two things by compare & contrast: binet looked at the results from children and stated that the score measure their mental age. Mental age is the avg intellectual ability score for children of a specific age. For example, if the the 7 yr old score was the same score as avg 7 yr old then their mental age is 7. If 7yr old score is the same score as avg 10yr old, then their mental age is 10yr old even though they are 7yrs old. A child that has a lower mental age than their chronological age, they are expected to struggle in school.