Psychology 1000 Chapter Notes - Chapter 10: Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale, Fluid And Crystallized Intelligence, Verbal Fluency Test
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The ability to acquire knowledge, to think and reason effectively, and to deal adaptively with the environment. Galton showed through the study of family trees that eminence and genius seemed to occur within certain families. However, galton dismissed the fact that the more successful people he studied almost invariably came from privileged environments. Starts research program to identify individual with low ability. Intelligence is unitary based on sensory ability and is hard-wired . The rate at which people gain mental competence is a characteristic of the person and is fairly constant over time. The ratio of mental age to chronological age multiplied by 100. Adapts binet scale for use in the u. s. while at stanford (creates stanford-binet test) Request from french government (public school was mandatory) Belief that intelligence was a collection of higher-order abilities . There should be no correlation between those items in the collection. The ability results from learning (sharp contrast to galton"s genetic approach)
