Origins of Intelligence Testing

Origins of Intelligence Testing

• Who made the first IQ test and when?– Alfred Binet, early 1900s

• Why did he make it?– A push for compulsory public

education– To identify students for

special education.

Origins of Intelligence Testing• Who made the first IQ

test for Americans?– Lewis Terman

• What is it now called and why?– Stanford-Binet IQ Test

• How is the Stanford-Binet scored?– IQ (intelligence quotient)

Intelligence Quotient

Practice:

• Alice is 10 and scores the same as a typical 11-year-old on the Stanford-Binet. What is her IQ score?

• Jonathan is 8 and received a score of 125 on the Stanford-Binet. What is his mental age?

• Why is this formula not good for adults?

EUGENICS– social movement claiming

to improve the human population by sterilization

and selective breeding.

IQ testing was developed in the midst of this movement.

Fitter Families

Lewis Terman

• Developed IQ tests for WWI army recruits promoted their use.– Tests determined access to officer

training– Concluded that native southern

Europeans, middle easterners, and Asians were intellectually inferior.

• Belonged to the Human Betterment Foundation, a eugenics group.

What IS Intelligence?

Can you define it? How?Is it one thing or several abilities?Can we use new technology to measure it

directly?

Direct measurements of intelligence1. Brain volume correlates

moderately (0.44) with intelligence (head size does NOT).

2. Glucose consumption may correlate negatively (-0.58) with ability on cognitive tasks.

3. Speed at which one can perceive an image (+0.4)

4. Speed at which brain waves register a stimulus.

Personality TraitsList some: friendly, funny, spiffylicious

Factor Analysis

Using statistics to find clusters of related items.For intelligence, maybe……Able to learn calculus, able to use big words, able to

explain how to set a pick in BB, ability to memorize long strings of numbers, able to solve logic puzzles, good at scrabble, get good grades, get a high SAT score, able to learn to read music, able to come up with creative ideas, able to find patterns, able to read people’s body language, able to read a map.

Charles Spearman• Pioneered use of factor analysis.

• Concluded all types of intelligence correlate.• g = general intelligence factors

Savant Syndrome

• More

Howard Gardner and

Multiple Intelligences

Robert Sternberg’s Triarchic Theory of Intelligence

Emotional Intelligence

• Daniel Goleman

• competencies and skills that drive leadership performance, such as:– Self-awareness – Self-management – Social awareness – Relationship management

• Walter Mischel’s marshmallow test

Mnemonic Haiku

A spear-man has one

point but a young Gardner

has many sharp tools.

Factor Analysisloyal, devoted, rebellious, affectionate, distant, cold, aloof, aspiring, ambitious, motivated, unmotivated, candid, guarded, secretive, caring, callous, cheerful, gloomy, grumpy, considerate, thoughtful, inconsiderate, helpful, combative, courageous, fearful, courteous, rude, impolite, decisive, uncommitted, uncaring, hostile, determined, indecisive, unsure, perseveres, endures, relents, enthusiastic, apathetic, indifferent, expansive, constricting, flexible, inflexible, rigid, unbending, stubborn, forgiving, unforgiving, resentful, spiteful, focused, unfocused, scattered, authoritarian, controlling, friendly, unfriendly, distant, aloof, hostile, frugal, thrifty, wasteful, generous, stingy, miserly, selfish, malicious, hateful, grateful, ungrateful, unappreciative, hard-working, lazy, honest, dishonest, deceiving, humble, arrogant, conceited, interested, indifferent, complacent, jealous, envious, covetous, cruel, mean, mature, immature, modest, vain, open-minded, tolerant, small-minded, intolerant, optimistic, persistent, practical, impractical, punctual, realistic, naïve,¯