PSYA02H3 Chapter Notes - Chapter 9: Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale, Fluid And Crystallized Intelligence, Birth Order

• School: UTSC
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYA02H3
• Professor: Dwayne Pare

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Forced sterilizaion common in the 20th ce, based on iq needed 70% or higher otherwise you are geneically unit. Good because it avoids problem of iq scores that decline with age. Wechsler adult intelligence scale (wais) most commonly used for adolescents and adults (wechsler: full scale iq that broke into general ability index (gai) and cogniive proiciency index (cpi) Boost during ww1 used in military to determine which recruits should have certain roles. Iq tesing and the eugenics movement: darwin"s theory of evoluion was applied to human culture and people assumed. Administered more tests to people and his race-based beliefs seemed to be true. Feebleminded people who scored so low on the tests. Alberta"s sexual sterilizaion act remained in force unil 1972. The race and iq controversy: iq was higher among whites, but this was because of the prejudice researchers wanted it to be seen like that by making the quesions unfair as immigrants did not about.