PSYA02H3 Chapter Notes - Chapter 9: Birth Order, Genomics, Socioeconomic Status
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Forced sterilizaion common in the 20th ce, based on iq needed 70% or higher otherwise you are geneically unit. Galton believed that sensory abiliies were an indicator of intelligence. Anthropometrics: methods of measuring physical and mental variaion in humans. James catell found that people"s abiliies on diferent sensory tests were not correlated with each other, therefore they can"t be indicators of the same thing, so approach was abandoned. Intelligence: ability to think, understand, reason and adapt to or overcome obstacles. Mental age: average intellectual ability score for children of a speciic age. Intelligence quoient (iq): calculated by taking a person"s mental age, diving it by his chronological age, then muliplying by 100 (william stern) Good because it avoids problem of iq scores that decline with age. Wechsler adult intelligence scale (wais) most commonly used for adolescents and adults (wechsler: full scale iq that broke into general ability index (gai) and cogniive proiciency index (cpi)
