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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

• 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

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

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