APSY-UE 20 Chapter Notes - Chapter 9: Lewis Terman, Intellectual Disability, Child Prodigy

• School: New York University
• Department: Applied Psychology
• Course: APSY-UE 20
• Professor: Adina R Schick

Document Summary

Child prodigy: someone who displays astounding intellectual achievements at an early age. Galton"s hypothesis: intelligence is the by-product of sensory capacity. Reasoned that most knowledge first comes through the senses, especially vision and hearing. Later research indicated that one heightened sense does not bear much of a relation to other exceptional senses. Measures of sensory ability are not correlated w overall intelligence. Intelligence test (developed by binet and simon): diagnostic tool designed to measure overall thinking ability. Higher mental processes: include reasoning, understanding, and judgement. Abstract thinking: capacity to understand hypothetical concepts, rather than concepts in the here and now. American experts mostly agreed that intelligence consists of the abilities to: reason abstractly, learn to adapt to novel environmental circumstances, acquire knowledge, benefit from experience. Most americans view intelligence as consisting of the capacity to reason well & reason quickly (think on your feet)