| History of Psychology, 4/e David Hothersall,
Ohio State University
Historical Uses and Abuses of Intelligence Testing
Chapter Outline
Testing Individual Differences in Ancient China |
| | | Alfred Binet- Binet’s Early Life and Education
- Binet’s Early Years with Jean Charcot at La Salpêtrière
- Transfer and Polarization Studies
- Controversy with Nancy School
- Binet’s Research on the Development of Cognition
- Binet at the Sorbonne
- Binet’s Test of Intelligence
- Experimental Studies of Intelligence
- Binet-Simon Scales of 1905, 1908, and 1911
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| | | Henry H. Goddard- The Kallikaks
- Gregor Mendel
- Eugenic Sterilization
- Goddard at Ellis Island
- Goddard’s Work with Gifted Children
- Henry Goddard: An Appreciation
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| | | Lewis M. Terman- Terman’s Early Life
- Terman’s Revision of the Binet-Simon Scales
- Terman’s Studies of Genius
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| | | Robert Mearns Yerkes- Yerkes’s Early Life
- Yerkes’s Comparative Research and Early Psychometric Investigations
- The Army Alpha and Beta Tests
- Reaction to the Army Report
- The Challenge
- Wlater Lippmann
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| | | Later Controversies- The Eleven-plus Program
- The Cyril Burt Affair
- The Identical Twin Evidence
- The Burt Case Reopened
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| | | Recent Developments in Intelligence Testing- The Bell Curve Revisited
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