PSYC 102 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Army Beta, Content Validity, Lewis Terman
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Especially individuals from certain countries and backgrounds: 83% of jews, 80% of hungarians, 79% of italians, and, 87% of russians. Criticisms: his translation of the binet scale was wrong and was biased to certain individuals, he applied his version of the test to individuals who could barely speak a word of. Terman believed an iq test could be used to sort people into social roles appropriate to their intelligence. And that such sorting would result in a just and efficient society. He also believed that criminals could be identified with his test: (cid:862)(cid:374)ot all (cid:272)ri(cid:373)i(cid:374)als are fee(cid:271)le-minded, but all feeble-minded persons are at least potential criminals. That every feeble-minded woma(cid:374) is a pote(cid:374)tial prostitute (cid:863) Whereas goddard introduced the binet scale to the us, terman was the primary architect of its popularity and its revision to the iq test. Most i(cid:373)porta(cid:374)tl(cid:455), ter(cid:373)a(cid:374)"s re(cid:448)isio(cid:374) of the binet-simon scale in 1916 extended its usage to the identification of (cid:862)superior adults. (cid:863)
