Psychology 1000 Chapter 10: Chapter 10 - Intelligence January 20th.docx

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

Document Summary

Believed that eminent people had inherited mental constitutions that made them more fit for thinking than their less successful counterparts. Dismissed the fact that the more successful people he studied almost invariably came from privileged environments. Attempted to demonstrate a biological basis for eminence by showing that people who were socially and occupationally successful would also perform better on a variety of laboratory tasks. In developing his tests, binet made to assumptions about intelligence: 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. Result of the testing was a score called the mental image. 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 10. Concept of mental age was broadened by william stern.