Psychology 1000 Chapter Notes - Chapter 10: Fluid And Crystallized Intelligence, Lewis Terman, Mental Age

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

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Intelligence- the ability to acquire knowledge, to think and reason effectively, and to deal adaptively with the environment. Intelligence is not something that has concrete existence; instead a socially constructed concept. Intelligence in historical perspective: sir francis galton and alfred binet set the stage for later attempts to measure intelligence and discover its causes. Made 2 assumptions about intelligence: mental abilities develop with age, the rate at which people gain mental competence is a characteristics of the person and is fairly constant over time. This concept was expanded by william stern, created the: Mental age- the mental level (or age) at which a child is performing as determined by a standardized interview in which the child responds to a series of questions. 16 years b/c of normal life experiences and schooling: some intellectual skills show a decline at advanced ages, iq based on a person"s performance relative to the scores of other people the same age, with a score of.