Psychology 2410A/B Chapter Notes - Chapter 8: Spatial Visualization Ability, Genetic Disorder, Heredity

• School: Western University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 2410A/B
• Professor: Sandra Hessels

Document Summary

Intelligence: the ability to solve problems and to adapt to and learn from experiences. Includes verbal and non-verbal responses: mental age (ma): an individuals level of mental development relative to others. Refers to a person"s mental age divided by chronological age (ca) and then multiplied by 100. If the mental age is the same as chronological age, then the person"s iq is 100: the binet test has since been revised at stanford university and so it is now the. Scores on the stanford-binet test approximate a normal distribution (symmetrical, with a majority of scores falling in the middle. A bell curve): the 2003 version of the stanford-binet test covers five factors of cognitive ability: fluid reasoning, knowledge, quantitative reasoning, visual-spatial reasoning, and short-term memory, wechsler scales: more widely used in canada (have canadian norms). Students high is analytic intelligence tend to be favoured by conventional schools.