PSYA02H3 Chapter Notes - Chapter 9: Leilani Muir, Lewis Terman, Francis Galton
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Iq (intelligence quotient) score (below the age average) had her fallopian tubes destroyed without her knowledge because of a low. Intelligence: the ability to think, understand, reason, and adapt to or overcome obstacles. 1904: binet and theodore simon hired to develop a test to measure intelligence: a way of identifying retarded children, identified 30 tasks ranging from easiest to hardest. Mental age: the average intellectual ability score for children of a specific age: ex: 7 year-old with a mental age of 10 smarter than a 7 year-old with a mental of. 6: smarter if mental age greater than chronological age. Lewis terman- stanford university: adapted test for american students. Standford-binet test: a test intended to measure innate levels of intelligence. Differed from binet"s view: measure of mental age not innate capacity. William stem came with concept of iq: iq: calculated by taking a person"s mental age, dividing it by chronological age, then multiplying by 100.
