Lesson 2 Flashcards
Eugenics Movement
movement where Many groups of people in the 1900s wanted to develop a society made up of talented, intelligent,
and physically attractive people
eugenics movement
father of eugenics
Francis Galton
polymath with an IQ of 200
Francis Galton
Who is the half-cousin of Francis Galton where works focus on evolution, survival of the fittest, and selective breeding?
Charles Darwin
______ traits tend to ________ toward the mean?
Inherited; regress
T or F: Normal curve is applicable to mental traits
T
Who puts emphasis on the importance of studying ______ difference and _______ inheritance in
human capacies
Francis Galton; individual; mental
variaons among human beings that disnguish or separate them from one another
Individual Differences
“eminent men have eminent sons”
mental inheritance
individual greatness or genius occurred within families far too oen to be explained
solely by environmental influences
mental inheritance
________ - or the lack of it – is solely a funcon of heredity, not opportunity
mental inheritance; eminence
the “science” of eradicang genec defects and improving the genec make-up of populaons
through arficial selecon and selecve breeding
eugenics
greek word; means good in stock, hereditarily endowed with
noble qualities
eugenes
promotes the reproducon by individuals with ostensibly superior
characteriscs or traits
positive eugenics
prevenon of reproducon by individuals that are considered unfit
or with undesirable qualies
negative eugenics
