Summary and Objectives

• Explain key concepts such as IQ, Mental Age, Spearman’s g, and crystalized vs fluid
• Compare Sternberg’s vs Howard Gardner’s types of intelligence.
• Decide when you would use WISC, Standford-Binet, or the Bayley Infant Milestones
• Talk about why this matters by examining how well tests work and the Flynn Effect.

Links

• Review of Gardner’s Multiple Intelligences
• Should we test gifted children?
• Relly funny video lecture asking if schools kill creativity?
• The Savant Syndrome
• The Jekyll and Hyde Approach to Intelligence