9.1- Intelligence Tests

Types

Graduate Records Examination (GRE)

Law School Admissions Test (LSAT)

Medical College Admissions (MCAT)

The Anthropometric Approach

Sir Francis Galton (1822-1911)

Anthoprometrics: a historical term referring to the method of measuring physical and mental variation in humans

Measured sensory abilities as an indicator of intelligence (what we learn is acquired through our senses)

Social Darwinism : white people the better group, deserve to breed & deserve support. racist eugenics

The Binet-Simon Approach

Alfred Binet (1857-1911) & Theodore Simon (1872-1961)

Intelligence as the ability to think, understand, and adapt

Mental Age: average intellectual ability score for children of a specific age

Current ability relative to age, but changeable

Stanford-Binet Test- Unfortunate Turn

Lewis Terman (1877-1956) developed a test intended to measure innate (genetic) intelligence

Incorporated Intellgience Quotient (IQ) - mental age/chronological age * 100

ex: 7 years old mental age/10 years chronological age x 100 = 70

set the stage for misguided use of intelligence tests