Week6

Question 1

Define Intelligence

Answer 1

Socially constructed concept that can be defined as the mental quality of the ability to learn from experience, solve problems, and use knowledge to adapt to new situation.

only a working definition

Question 2

This scientist became obsessed with exploring variation in human populations…

Answer 2

Sir Francis Galton - used questionnaries or assessing physical and mental traits (breathing power, swiftness of blow, colour sense, keenness of sight, etc)

Eugenics was coined by him (most gifted should mate with other gifted ppl and given opportunities to strengthen their skills). He thought human abilities were largely inherited.

Also —> mean, standard deviation, correlation, regression towards the mean

Question 3

This scientist conributed to psychology by making ‘mental tests’ that involved a psychomotor& sensory tasks..

Answer 3

James Mckeen Cattell - he thought they measured intellgence, but there was no correlation.

Question 4

These 2 scientists developed 30 tasks of increasing difficulty to assess a typical child and how far he would progress…

ALSO BELIEVED INTELLECT NOT FIXED.

Answer 4

Binet & Simon (French) - they could establish the intellectual level ( mental age).

If an 8 year could only do what a 7 year old could do, he was placed appropriately in the school system

Binet-Simon Scale for testing current intellects NOT future intellects

Question 5

These 2 scientists revised the Binet_Simon Test to make these scales, which adopted Stern’s IQ for IQ

Answer 5

Terman –IQ = mental / chrono age

Question 6

this intelligence test has 10 core subtests and 5 supplemental subtests….

Answer 6

WECHSLER - yields overall intelligence, verbal, perceptual, working memory, processing speed.

Compares the test-taker’s raw score to the mean raw score fo that person’s age group (yields standard deviation from the group score)

Mean is 100, w standard deviation fo 15 (so scoring 1 standard deviation above norm is actually a score of 115)

Percentile rank is the % of scores that matches their score or is lower. Ex: 1 standard deviation above norm, means the 85th percentile, and your IQ is higher than 84% of ppl.