PSYA02H3 Chapter Notes - Chapter 9: Stanford–Binet Intelligence Scales, Leilani Muir, Affirmative Action
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Leilani muir: forced to be sterilized due to low iq score. Galton believed that because people learn about the world through their senses, those with superior sensory abilities would surely be more intelligent. He created a set of tests around this idea. Anthropometrics: methods of measuring physical and mental variation in humans. Cattell took galton"s tests and administered them to university students. He found that the different sensory test scores were not correlated with each other. Some people have better hearing than eyesight. He found that scores on the sensory tests were not correlated with their university abilities. Because of this, the approach was scrapped. Binet argued that intelligence should be indicated by more complex thinking processes, such as memory, attention, and comprehension. Intelligence: the ability to think, understand, reason, and adapt to or overcome obstacles. Binet and simon developed a test to determine the abilities of children who might benefit from special education.
