Psychology 1000 Chapter Notes - Chapter 10: Intelligence Quotient, Standard Deviation, Job Performance

• School: Western University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 1000
• Professor: Laura Fazakas- De Hoog

Document Summary

Intelligence = ability to acquire knowledge, reason, and adapt to environment. Sir francis galton: intelligence is inherited, smart = more t, intelligence was unitary (based on quickness, intelligence is affected by skull size, turned out to be wrong. Alfred binet: no correlation between each of the abilities that de ne intelligence, mental abilities develop with age, rate of development is constant, developed mental age . Iq = mental age / actual age. Iq test really only work with children. Mental age becomes meaningless after a certain age (ex: 80 years old =/= smarter than 40) Iqs have a mean of 100 & standard deviation of 15. Iqs are most highly correlated with high school grades, job performance, & survival. Iq predicts performance better than experience/ abilities/ personality. Standardization = a norm representative test score that represents a certain age of population. Psychometric approach, the statistics of psychological tests.