Objective 40
Define
intelligence and the history of measuring it.
Explanation:
Intelligence is the mental quality consisting of the ability to learn form experience, solve problems, and use knowledge to adapt to new situations. Alfred Binet and Theodore Simon waned to measure a child's mental age or the level of performance associated with a certain chronological age. Lewis Terman adapted some of Binet's beliefs and called it the Stanford-Binet which is a widely used American revision of Binet's original intelligence test. From tests like those William Stern came up with IQ. An IQ is a person's mental age divided by their chronological age and multiplied by 100. An average child whose mental and chronological ages are the same has an IQ of 100, but an eight year old who answers questions like a ten year old as an IQ of 125. This IQ formula worked good with children but not with adults. Today most IQ tests don't compute IQ in this manner. They represent the test taker's performance relative to the average performance of others the same age.
Intelligence is the mental quality consisting of the ability to learn form experience, solve problems, and use knowledge to adapt to new situations. Alfred Binet and Theodore Simon waned to measure a child's mental age or the level of performance associated with a certain chronological age. Lewis Terman adapted some of Binet's beliefs and called it the Stanford-Binet which is a widely used American revision of Binet's original intelligence test. From tests like those William Stern came up with IQ. An IQ is a person's mental age divided by their chronological age and multiplied by 100. An average child whose mental and chronological ages are the same has an IQ of 100, but an eight year old who answers questions like a ten year old as an IQ of 125. This IQ formula worked good with children but not with adults. Today most IQ tests don't compute IQ in this manner. They represent the test taker's performance relative to the average performance of others the same age.
Example:
This cartoon shows that many people do not agree with using IQ tests to judge people. Some people might not have the highest intelligence, but are smart and successful in many other ways.
This cartoon shows that many people do not agree with using IQ tests to judge people. Some people might not have the highest intelligence, but are smart and successful in many other ways.
Example:
This website, http://psychology.about.com/od/psychologicaltesting/a/int-history.htm, gives some more information of the history of measuring intelligence. It tells about the world's first mass administration of an intelligence test. It was given by the US government to arriving immigrants and World War 1 army recruits.
This website, http://psychology.about.com/od/psychologicaltesting/a/int-history.htm, gives some more information of the history of measuring intelligence. It tells about the world's first mass administration of an intelligence test. It was given by the US government to arriving immigrants and World War 1 army recruits.