AG 116AD Lecture Notes - Lecture 41: Joseph Wolpe, Sigmund Freud, Behaviour Therapy
29 Jul 2020
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States entered world war i in 1917)> lead an army program to adapt iq testing to a military environment> result: the first group intelligence test (the stanford-binet must be given to one child at a time**). Not useful tho so discontinued: context: 1920s, roaring twenties, postwar period, optimism, growth, and sense of being world power. Optimism in mental testing: yerkes and terman> national intelligence tests> the scholastic aptitude test (sat), mental testing doubts: 1920: army testing program revelation that the average mental age of the u. s. soldier was just over 13. It suggested that the average young american male was borderline feebleminded. Responses: positive eugenics: see how to improve native intelligence, negative eugenics: identifying mental incompetents through iq testing and preventing them from reproducing through sterilization procedures. The debate over the nature of intelligence, and the question of what is measured by an iq test, continues. M nsterberg"s interests began to shift to applied psychology.
