Psychology 3228A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: John Harvey Kellogg, John Maynard Keynes, Francis Galton

• School: Western University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 3228A/B
• Professor: K. MacPherson

Document Summary

Invented correlation, regression, the weather map, method for classifying fingerprints. 1st to use questionnaires, statistics to study human variation, twin studies. Founded psychometrics: wide ranging studies in heredity, almost rediscovered mendel"s laws. Proponentof eugenics: encouraging successful people to reproduce earlier in life, galton noted that many social programs seemed to counter natural selection. Less "fit"" rather than being weeded out were sheltered and reproduced. Eugenics is like a tree: draws its material from many sources and organizes them into an harmonious entity. Included range of ideologies: a form of genetic (or biological) determinism, negative eugenics prohibit reproduction of the "unfit"", galton"s goal was to improve human society via positive eugenics, was not a new idea! Positive eugenics encourages individuals with "high fitness"" to mate: plato"s republic. "the best men must have intercourse w the best women as frequently as possible, and the opposite is true of the inferior"".