PSYC37H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Ethical Dilemma, Color Blindness, Brass Instrument
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Aptitude: focus on potential for learning a specific skill. Intelligence: general potential independent of previous learning: two main types of personality tests. History of psychological testing: origins in china, over 4000 years ago. Examination of civil servants" fitness for office: han dynasty: written exams testing various topics. Penmanship was important: ming dynasty: even more formalized and highly selective testing system, to determine eligibility for public office, chinese civil service examination system: Round 1: spend one day and night in a small isolated booth composing essays on assigned topics and writing a poem. Round 2: three separate sessions of three days and three nights. Darwin proposed that higher forms of life evolved partially because of differences among individual forms of life within a species. Individuals with the best or most adaptive characteristics survive at the expense of those who are less fit ( survival of the fittest )
