Psychology 1000 Chapter Notes - Chapter 10: Fluid And Crystallized Intelligence, Verbal Fluency Test, Revised Version

• School: Western University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 1000
• Professor: Mark Holden

Document Summary

The ability acquire knowledge, to think and reason effectively and to live. 1st systemic attempt to measure intelligence (intelligence = heritable) Coined term (cid:498)social darwinism(cid:499) higher classes citizens were smarter/had. Wanted to arrange special schools for children who couldn"t learn in a. This work later justifies eugenics (forced sterilization) normal classroom setting superior genes. Rate of increase relatively constant throughout development. Mental age is suppose to identify the cognitive age of a child (mental age/chronological age) x 100. Current iq no longer uses mental age. Created intelligence quotient (iq) based off of binet"s concept of mental age. )ntroduced a revised version on binet"s test to north america. Revised version = stranford binet intelligence test. Believed his test provided (cid:498)strong empirical justification for eugenic practices(cid:499) Consisted mostly of verbal items single iq score. Encourages social darwinism for soldiers in wwi. Believed intelligence was both verbal and non-verbal (criticized s/b test for focusing to much on verbal intelligence)