| History of Psychology, 4/e David Hothersall,
Ohio State University
Historical Uses and Abuses of Intelligence Testing
Chapter Objectives
After studying this chapter, you should: - Appreciate how a lack of scientific training led Binet to make unfortunate mistakes
- Know of the origins of the Binet-Simon scale and what its original purpose was
- Know of the numerous (negative) contributions of Goddard
- Appreciate the circumstances surrounding Goddard that may make it inappropriate to single him out as the source of all the harm that was done
- Be able to describe the positive contributions of both Goddard and Terman
- Understand the role psychologists had it WWI, and the role WWI played in changing psychology
- Know of more recent controversies surrounding IQ scores
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