PSYCH101 Lecture Notes - Intelligence Quotient, Jean Piaget, Mental Chronometry

• School: University of Waterloo
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYCH101
• Professor: Richard Ennis

Document Summary

Francis galton (1822 1911): was english and was rich, well connected socially and was dramatically outperformed by other students in school. Was involved in many of today s technology, like: the discovery of normal distribution, correlation co-efficient, discovery of using finger examination, high and low pressures in metrology. Was also an explorer- and had travelled around africa-which became a best-seller. This led him to believe in the idea of intelligence- and that he believed intelligence was inherited. Success and geniuses stemmed around the family tree. His family tree had many successful people, which led him to believe that intelligence was biological. He wanted to see if there was a correlation between those who had a good or bad family history depending on the size of your head, reaction-time, etc. Then charles darwin s (cousin) book came out, and had him wondering whether it was selection that had families evolve faster and better.