Psychology 1000 Chapter Notes - Chapter 10: Short-Term Memory, Internal Consistency, Robert Sternberg

• School: Western University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 1000
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Intelligence: the ability to acquire knowledge, to think and reason effectively, and to deal adaptively with the environment. Galton: people inherited intellectual mental constitutions, people who were more sociable and occupational successful preformed better on laboratory tasks, his measures of nervous system efficiency proved unrelated to socially relevant measures of mental ability. Binet: mental abilities develop with age, the rate at which people gain mental competence is a characteristic of the person and is fairly constant over time. Mental age: the result of the testing score. If an 8 year old could solve problems at the level of a 10 year old, the child was said to have a mental age of 10. Intelligence quotient: the ratio of mental age to chronological age, multiplied by. Old way, a 10 year old with a mental age of 10 would have an iq of 100. New way, based a person"s performance relative to the scores of other people the same age.