PSYA02H3 Chapter 9: Chapter-9-Intelligence-Testing-Notes.docx
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Anthropometrics (literally, the measurement of people ) refers to methods of measuring physical and mental variation in humans. The systematic attempt to measure intelligence in the modern era began with francis. Galton"s approach to measuring intelligence was generally abandoned because james. Galton developed anthropometrics as a means to measure intelligence based on o. Cattell, one of galton"s colleagues, replicated galton"s tests on university studies and the results of different sensory tests weren"t correlated with each other, or only very weekly. o an indicator of intelligence. would have exceptional hearing. For example, having exceptional sight seemed to signify little about whether one. The students" scores on the sensory tests didn"t predict their grades, which were to be. Intelligence is the ability to think, understand, reason, and adapt to or overcome obstacles. In contrast to galton, french psychologist, alfred binet, argued that intelligence. Theodore simon, to develop a test to measure intelligence. o like house .
