PSYA02H3 Chapter Notes - Chapter 9: James Mckeen Cattell, Lewis Terman, The Bell Curve
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Believed that b/c people learn through their senses those with superior sesnory abilities would be able to learn more. Created a set of 17 sensory tests; began testing people"s abilities in his anthropometric ( the measurement of people ; methods of measuring physical and mental variations in humans) lab. James mckeen cattell took these studies to the us. Discovered that sensory tests weren"t correlated (ie great eyesight didn"t = great hearing) and therefore couldn"t both be indicators of the same thing (intelligence) Also found that the sensory scores didn"t predict their grades. Argued that (memory, attention, comprehension) intelligence should be indicated by more complex thinking processes obstacles. Define intelligence as the ability to think, understand, reason, and adapt to or overcome. Binet was hired to develop a test for intelligence in 1904. Developed 30 tasks arranged in order of increasing difficulty (ie. from defining common words to being able to define abstract concepts)
