PSYC 1 Chapter 30: Assessing Intelligence
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Psyc 1 textbook notes module 30: assessing intelligence. Intelligence test: method for assessing an individual"s mental aptitudes and comparing them with those of others using numerical scores. Achievement tests: test designed to assess what a person has learned. Aptitude tests: test designed to predict a person"s future performance: aptitude: capacity to learn. Mental aptitude shows up in many ways. Worried people would use it to label children and limit their opportunities. Stanford-binet: widely used american revision by terman at stanford university of. 100: original formula worked well for children, but not for adults, today, computed relative to the performance of people of the same age. Eugenics: measuring human traits and using the results to encourage only smart and fit people to reproduce. Test affected by native language, education, and the culture in which the test was made and the person is a part of. Wwi first mass use of intelligence tests in order for the us government to measure recruits.
