Psych Overview: U3 Ch. 13 Flashcards
Why Binet called suggestibility “the cholera of psychology,”
Suggestibility had ruined his hypnotic experiments.
A series of short tests, administrable to one person in less than two hours, that could provide information comparable in richness, complexity, and comprehensiveness to that obtained from the many hours of observations and interviews traditionally devoted to individual case studies.
Binet’s (and Henri’s) program of Individual Psychology
What did “Binet and many others” become interested in
Mental Subnormality
What did Binet and Simon set out to do?
Develop a test to identify children whose mental handicap rendered them permanently unable to benefit form an ordinary education.
Know what year the first Binet and Simon test came out
1905
Age had to be considered: normal and subnormal children might both learn to pass the same tests, but normal children invariably did so at a younger age.
Binet and Simon’s Key insight
what did it become common to describe the subnormal population as?
Mentally retarded
A Task that a child would need to complete based on their age.
Age-standardized items
what intellectual level was for Binet
A genuine “scale” of intelligence, capable of providing a single score.
Children with intellectual levels more than two years behind their actual ages be seriously considered for special education
Binet’s rule of thumb
English psychologist who introduced the theory of general intelligence.
Spearman
All intellectual tasks must entail the exercise of a single common “factor” he called “______________” and abbreviated as g.
general intelligence
Each individual type of item required an ability specific to itself, an s factor. S and G comprised _____________.
Spearman’s two-factor theory
Know what IQ is and what it stands for
calculating such single numbers from Binet’s intelligence tests.
b. Intelligence quotient.
The first to argue persuasively for the usefulness of Binet tests in diagnosising superior intelligence.
Terman
