Psychology 1000 Chapter Notes - Chapter 10: Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale, Cyril Burt, Psychometrics

• 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, to deal adaptively with the environment. Binet"s legacy: terman revised binet"s test to make it appropriate for american culture, became known as the stanford-binet test, used to screen us army recruits for intellectual tness during wwi. The issues today: wechsler believed that intelligence should be measured as a group of distinct but related verbal and non-verbal abilities, wais - wechsler adult intelligence scale, most popular intelligence tests in north america, a different measurement approach. Primary mental abilities: human mental performance depends on 7 factors, intelligence is more complex than a single g-factor. Carroll"s three stratum model: three stratum theory of cognitive abilities establishes three kinds of mental skills, general, broad, narrow. Narrow (stratum i) speci c cognitive perceptual and speed tasks used in studies of cognitive ability (cid:36)(cid:1)(cid:41)(cid:1)(cid:34)(cid:1)(cid:49)(cid:1)(cid:53)(cid:1)(cid:38)(cid:1)(cid:51)(cid:1)(cid:1)(cid:18)(cid:17)(cid:1)(cid:1)(cid:1)(cid:1)(cid:1)(cid:1)(cid:1)(cid:1)(cid:1)(cid:1)(cid:1)(cid:1)(cid:1)(cid:1)(cid:1)(cid:1)(cid:1)(cid:1)(cid:1)(cid:42)(cid:1)(cid:47)(cid:1)(cid:53)(cid:1)(cid:38)(cid:1)(cid:45)(cid:1)(cid:45)(cid:1)(cid:42)(cid:1)(cid:40)(cid:1)(cid:38)(cid:1)(cid:47)(cid:1)(cid:36)(cid:1)(cid:38)(cid:1)