Psychology 1000 Chapter Notes - Chapter 10: White Matter, Operational Definition, Intellectual Disability

• School: Western University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 1000
• Professor: Dr.Mike

Document Summary

Intelligence is not something that has concrete existence, but instead a socially constructed concept. Intelligence is the ability to acquire knowledge, to think and reason effectively, and to deal adaptively with the environment. Intelligence in historical perspective: sir francis galton and alfred binet are 2 of the major contributors to the study of mental skills. Instead it is based on a person"s performance relative to the scores of other people the same age, with a score of 100 corresponding to the average performance of that age group. Binet"s legacy: an intelligence-testing industry emerges: lewis terman used binet"s work and made a new test for american culture, he made a verbal testing, and a non-verbal testing since many recruits couldn"t read. The psychometric approach: the structure of intellect: psychometrics statistical study of psychological tests, tries to identify and measure the abilities that underlie individual differences in performance, tries to provide measurement-based map of the mind.