PSYC37H3 Chapter Notes - Chapter 9: Criterion Validity, Online Analytical Processing, Intelligence Quotient
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Capacity to adapt: culturally biased definitions, our definition(s) of intelligence have direct implications for how we go about measuring it, any measure of intelligence is guided by an underlying definition and theory of intelligence. Taylor (1994) identified three independent research traditions that have been employed to study the nature of human intelligence: psychometric: examines the elemental structure of a test. The oldest approach to investigating human intelligence. Studies intelligence by examining test properties; evaluates its correlated and underlying dimensions. Information processing: examines the processes that underlie how we learn and solve problems: cognitive approaches: focuses on how humans adapt to real-world demands. Principles of test construction: age differentiation: one can differentiate older children from younger children by the former"s greater capabilities. With the principle of age differentiation, one could determine the equivalent age capabilities of a child independently of chronological age. Equivalent age capability was eventually called mental age.
