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Intelligence and perception: galton"s anthropometric approach: believed sensory abilities would indicate intelligence, anthropometrics measurement of people, measurements didn"t correlate with each other. Average = 100: wechsler adult intelligence scale (wais, full scale iq. General ability index: verbal comprehension index, perceptual reasoning index. In an attempt to be culturally unbiased, raven"s progressive matrices relies upon visual patterns questions. If someone"s mental age were double her chronological age, her iq would be 200. Iq testing and the eugenics movement: eugenics good genes, racial differences in intelligence, race and iq controversy, 1920"s iq testing on new immigrants arriving at ellis island, the bell curve herrnstein & murray. Human intelligence is predictor of different personal/social outcomes. Increases arousal due to individuals awareness of negative stereotype of group this undermines performance. Entity theory belief that intelligence is fixed characteristic and relatively difficult to change. Incremental theory believe that intelligence can be shaped by experience, practice and effort.
