Gould Flashcards
1
Q
What is the background?
A
Different ways of measuring intelligence, making a scientific measure of intelligence
Does psychometric testing work?
2
Q
What happened in Yerkes study?
A
Looking at the intelligence of 1.75 million US Army recruits (European immigrants)
Used Alpha A & B and Beta (pictures for the illiterates) and Individual Spoken tests
3
Q
What was a result of Yerkes study?
A
Non-English speaking did worse on the intelligence tests
4
Q
What did Gould conclude?
A
Intelligence tests aren’t reliable in this research, IQ tests need to be made as non-culturally specific as possible or they will lead to labelling and discrimination in society
