Intelligence

Chapter 11 419-421
Reasons for Intelligence Testing
 The modern intelligence testing movement
began with Alfred Binet. The French
Government dictated that all children must
attend school. Binet devised the test to help
place special needs children.
 Binet thought that children all develop the
same but just at different rates, he
differentiated between the child’s actual age,
and their mental age.
Origins of Intelligence Testing

 LewisTerman at Stanford University later

revised Binet’s test for students in California
and renamed it the Stanford-Binet test
which is still used today.
IQ
 Another psychologist derived the term IQ from these
tests
 IQ stands for Intelligent Quotent originally because of
its equation:
 IQ = mental age x 100
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actual age

 Today’s IQ is calculated differently using 100 as a

mean having 2/3rds of the population getting
between 85 and 115.
Today’s Intelligence

 Intelligence – mental quality consisting of the

ability to learn from experience, solve
problems, and use knowledge to adapt to
new situations.
 Factor analysis – statistical procedure that
identifies clusters of related items on a test
used to identify different dimensions of
performance that underlie one’s total score.
Intelligence

 Example: some people might score high in

vocabulary might also score high in
paragraph comprehension, both would be
factors under verbal intelligence. However,
many scientists believe in one over-riding
factor that helps define all others – General
Intelligence. There is a great debate over
whether a single score can accurately
describe someone’s intelligence.
Multiple intelligences

 See images
Successful Intelligence

 Analytical
 Creative
 Practical
Emotional Intelligence

 Perceive emotions
 Understand emotions
 Regulate emotions