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Stanford-Binet Test Mental Age Idea that intelligence increase w age Louis Terman Stanford Prof Used Binet system to measure IQTRANSCRIPT
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Alfred Binet
• French psychologist• Designed a series of
tests to measure the mental abilities of school children.
• Used test to compute average score for each age level
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Stanford-Binet Test
Mental Age Idea that
intelligence increase w age
Louis Terman Stanford Prof Used Binet system
to measure IQ
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Intelligence Quotient Measure of brightness by comparing
mental age with physical age 100 pt center
Mental age ÷ Physical age × 100 = IQ 6 ÷ 5 × 100 = 120
All adults given the age of 20
IQ
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Wechsler Intelligence Test
David Wechsler WAIS – adults WISC – children (6-16) WPPSI – preschool (4-
6)
Subscales (verbal and performance) combine to form IQ score
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Intellectual Disability Intellectual Developmental Disorder
Adaptive functioning with four levels of severity Mild, Moderate, Severe, Profound
Causes Genetic abnormalities – Downs syndrome Prenatal exposure – alcohol, drugs, chemicals
Extremes in Intelligence
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Prodigy Person with exceptional talents or
powers that does NOT have an intellectual disability
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Bill Gates – Prodigy Age 45 became richest man in
U.S. Began writing computer
programs in 8th grade Dropped out of Harvard –
created 1st operating system to run a computer
Microsoft, his company operates on 90% of the world’s computers
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Akrit Jaswal – Prodigy
15-year-old India native performed first surgery at age seven. At 11, he became youngest student ever admitted to an Indian university.
IQ of 146
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E. Midori – Prodigy Began violin at age 3 By age 10 – a prodigy Performed professionally (age 10) with NY
Philharmonic Able to memorize& flawlessly performlong complicated pieces of music.
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Gregg Cox - Prodigy Speaks 64 languages Began leaning languages age 5 Started with Spanish, Portuguese, Italian, German &
Mandarin Now learns about 5 per year Produced Worlds largest language dictionary in 225
languages. 45,600 pages of nearly 5 million entries which cross references each of 225 languages
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Jake Barnett- Prodigy
Age 2 – diagnosed with autism
Started college at 15 Video
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Savant Syndrome RARE condition marked by island of
brilliance in relation to intellectual disability Intellectually disabled but also display
exceptional skill in a limited domain such as music, art, math, or calculating dates.
Obsessive fixations on particular topics & memorization of trivia can also be present
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By age 2 Nadia had autism diagnosisAge 3 ½ she began to draw… draw not
scribble without training from memory with skill of a talented adult
Draws differently by putting in random details first & then outline last.
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Nadia – Age 4 vs. Da Vinci
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Nadia – Age 4 vs. Typical 9 year old
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Nadia Age 4 vs. Typical 4 year old
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Brittany Maier 16 year old blind,
autistic,& mentally disabled musical savant pianist
Memorized over 10,000 pieces including hundreds of originals