PSYCH101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Word Association, Hypnosis, Lewis Terman

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

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Lecture 8 - october 25, 2012 : intelligence and iq. Though he was never really good at school, he was a genius. Believed that intelligence is inherent and runs in the family o o o. His theory is disproved: intelligence is not related to the status of your family. Darwin: selecion - certain families are more evolved than other families; gives birth to eugenics. Eugenics: there are superior and inferior geneic stocks. This superior stock should be invested upon o o o o. Those who are more intelligent, should be given all of the resources and advantages. Resources should not be wasted on the less intelligent. Problem: have to be able to test the intelligence of children. So, he went back to trying to develop intelligence test. Simone teaches binet about psychology (uses same library piaget learned from) Binet was on the nurture side of intelligence.