PSY100H1 Chapter Notes - Chapter 9: Affirmative Action, Stereotype Threat, The Bell Curve
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Galton believed that because people learn about the world through their senses, those with superior sensory abiliies should be an indicator of a person"s intelligence. Anthropometrics ( measurement of people ): methods of measuring physical and mental variaion in humans. Binet argued that intelligence should be indicated by more complex thinking processes such as memory, atenion and comprehension. Intelligence: ability to think, understand reason and adapt to or overcome obstacles. Mental age: average intellectual ability score for children of a speciic age (determined through tests: if a child who was 7 scored the average of a 7 year old, her mental age would be 7. Stanford-binet test: test intended to measure innate levels of intelligence; binet saw it as a measure of a child"s current abiliies. Wais: most common intelligence test for adolescents/adults today. Provides a single iq score for each test taker (full scale iq) but also breaks intelligence into a.
