intelligence

Question 1

the notion of IQ can be

Answer 1

controversial

Question 2

is there a correlation between IQ and happiness?

Answer 2

The satisfaction with life scale.

Question 3

sir francis galton

Answer 3

Estimated IQ of 200

Keen explorer

Pioneered daily weather maps

Recognised that fingerprints were unique

Loved measuring things: “whenever you can, count”

Made a beauty map of the UK – gave a women a score on his notebook based on attrativeness
To see where the most beautiful women where
London = 1st
Aberdeen= last

He was a renaissance man

Galton measured individuals , collected data on 9337 people (height, weight, fingerprints, head size, vision and lung capacity, physical and mental measures)
> pearson correlation coefficent
> for galton, intelligence and mental prowess was inherited
“ i propose to show in this book that a man’s natural abilities are derived by inheritance, under exactly the same limitations as are the form and physical features of the whole organic world”

For galton, intelligence was passed from one generation to the next….

Question 4

sir Alfred binet

Answer 4

Influenced by Galton, Darwin and J.S mill

Worked with charcot (father of neurology) at the salpetriere (french psychiatric hospital)

Developed first intelligence test with theodore simon

New methods for the diagnosis of the intellectual level of subnormals ( to test whether or not children could be educated) < alfred binet 1905
First IQ test
To test if a child is normal or retarded
Nothing to do with past or future
Making a broad distinction between children that were average/below average
Refrains from making judgements about causes ect

Binet on what intelligence is:
It seems to us that in intelligence there is a fundamental faculty, the alteration or lack of which, is the utmost importance for practical life. This faculty is judgement, otherwise called good sense, practical sense, initive, the faculty of adapting one’s self to circumstances. To judge well, to comprehend well, to reason well, these are essential activites of intelligence. a person may be a moron or an imbecile if he is lacking in judgement, but with good judgement he can never be either.
Memory is distinct from and independant of judgement.
One may have good sense and lack memory, the reverse is also common.

Question 5

PRINT SLIDES ON ABOVE INDIVIDUALS

Answer 5

GALTON AND BINET

Question 6

lewis terman

Answer 6

Very precocious individual
Brain teasers from the 1916 binet-simon adult test
Termans termites (terman study of the gifted)
661 children, average age of 11, average IQ OF 151 were identified
Followed for more than 75 years
As children, taller and larger lung capacity than average
87% of men and 83% of women went to uni
What determines success? =

Question 7

Robert mears yerkes

Answer 7

Developed the army alpha and beta tests of IQ
Alpha tests was for recruits who could read
Eight tests: following directions, maths, practical judgement, synonyms-antonyms, disarranged sentences, series completition, analogies, general info
Administred to 1, 726, 966 service men between 1918-1919
Average mental age, as determined by tests, was 13 ( controversially)
First widespread testing, gave lots of info
The army-beta test was for those who could not write
Made up of 7 tests, including maze drawing, picture completion and others
Overall score low, was not scaled properly
4 contributors to the development of individual differences