PSY100H1 Chapter Notes - Chapter 9.1: Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale, Anthropometry, Intelligence Quotient
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Believed that because people learn about world through senses, those with superior sensory abilities would be more sensitively attuned to world. Created sensory tests & tested in anthropometric lab. Anthropometrics: methods of measuring physical and mental variation in humans. People"s abilities on different tests are not correlated with each other (ex: exceptional eyesight doesn"t equal exceptional hearing) Argued intelligence should be indicated by more complex thinking processes (like memory) Intelligence: ability to think, understand, reason, & adapt to/overcome obstacles. Intelligence reflects how well people are able to reason and problem solve. Argued that test score measured mental age: average intellectual ability score for children of specific age. Standford-binet test: test intended to measure innate levels of intelligence. Interpretation of intelligence as fixed, innate ability rather than a changeable ability leads to misguided use of intelligence. Intelligence quotient (iq): calculated by taking person"s mental age, dividing it by chronological age, then multiplying by 100. Neither made sense when applied to adults.
