Psychology 1000 Chapter Notes - Chapter 10: Evoked Potential, Electroencephalography, Internal Consistency

• School: Western University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 1000
• Professor: Terry Biggs

Document Summary

Intelligence is : a concept that refers to individual differences in abilities to: The psychometric approach to intelligence: psychometrics: the statistical study of psychological tests, the g factor. Intelligence performance governed by: general intelligence, specific abilities, thurstone"s primary abilities. Products- ideas we come up with: within each basic category there are several sub factors. Operations are composed of cognition, memory, divergent thinking, convergent thinking and evaluation. Contents are composed of figural, symbolic, semantic and behavioral. Input requires conscious transformation prior to output (e. g. recall list in categories) In this approach, intelligence would be measured on the basis of the types of tasks completed: the more tasks completed correctly requiring complex abilities, the higher a person"s abilities would be rated. In 1908 binet introduced the concept of mental age (ma). If a child completes the tasks normally done by children at age 8 ca then regardless of that child"s actual ca their mental age is deemed to be 8: binet"s assumptions.