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Intelligence, Personal Adjustment, and Normality Testing for Intelligence Intelligence the ability of a person to understand the situations that confront him or her and make appropriate adjustments depended on learning and thinking


  1. Intelligence, Personal Adjustment, and Normality

  2. Testing for Intelligence • Intelligence – the ability of a person to understand the situations that confront him or her and make appropriate adjustments depended on learning and thinking • Mental tests are intended to discover or measure the mental characteristics of an individual • Psychologists employ various tests to determine the characteristics of: – Intelligence - Achievement – Interests - Special Abilities – Aptitudes - Emotional Adjustment

  3. Testing for Intelligence • Mental Age and the I.Q. – Intelligence Quotient (I.Q.): an index of an individual’s tested mental ability as compared to the rest of the population – Calculated by dividing the mental age by the actual age and multiplying by 100 – Percentile ranks often used for test scores

  4. Testing for Intelligence • Limitations of I.Q. and other tests – Further education can increase I.Q. scores – Teacher’s expectations can increase children’s I.Q. scores • Intelligence and personal adjustment – IQ and the ability to adjust to society has little to do with each other – Intelligence and success not synonymous

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