Psychology 1000 Chapter Notes - Chapter 10: Brain Size, Job Performance, Testees

• School: Western University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 1000
• Professor: Dr.Mike

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Intelligence is the ability to acquire knowledge, to think and reason effectively, and to deal adaptively with the environment. Galton"s approach to mental-skills measurement fell into disfavour because his measures of nervous- system efficiency proved unrelated to socially relevant measures of mental ability, such as academic and occupational success. The result of the testing was a score called the mental age. For instance, if an 8 year- old child could solve problems at the level of the average 10- year- old, the child would be said to have a mental age of. Table 10. 1 sample problems from the stanford- binet intelligence test that should be answered. Age 3 child should be able to. Point to objects that serve various functions, such as goes on your fett . Name pictures of objects such as chair and flag. Repeat a list of two words or digits- e. g. , car, dog. Discriminate visual forms such as squares, circles, and triangles.