PSYA02H3 Chapter Notes - Chapter 9: Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale, Craig Kielburger, Lewis Terman
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Fallopian tubes surgically destroyed, told she was getting her appendix removed. Victim of misguided application of intelligence tests. Age 11: provincial training school for mental defectives, given test, scored 64 due to an error in the testing (below 70 cutoff required for forced sterilization) Forced sterilization was common in the us & canada in the 20th century alberta had the. Sexual sterilization act doctors could sterilize people they saw as genetically un t without their consent. Redid test, got 89 so she was wronged, sued govt; got ,000. Lesson: it"s important to measure things properly, especially intelligence testing. Intelligence and thinking: the stanford-binet test: alfred binet intelligence is indicated by complex thinking processes, such as memory, attention, and comprehension; very in uential, intelligence ability to think, understand, reason, & adapt to/overcome obstacles. Raven"s progressive matrices: previous tests have had a cultural bias since the questions usually require knowledge of the test developer"s culture and language.
