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Galton believed that because people learn about the world through their senses, those with superior sensory abilities should be able to learn more so sensory abilities are an indicator. )ntelligence and perception: galton"s anthropometric approach of a person"s intelligence. Anthropometrics (cid:523)(cid:498)measurement of people(cid:499)(cid:524): methods of measuring physical and mental weights, and began testing people"s abilities in his anthropometric laboratory. One of galton"s colleagues, james mckeen cattell, took his tests to the united states and people"s abilities on different sensory tests were not correlated with each other, or only variation in humans. Binet argued that intelligence should be indicated by more complex thinking processes such as memory, attention and comprehension. Intelligence: ability to think, understand reason and adapt to or overcome obstacles. Mental age: average intellectual ability score for children of a specific age (determined (cid:887)(cid:886)(cid:886) For example, a 10-year- old child with a mental age of 7 would have an iq of 7/10 100 = through tests). made by binet.
