PSY-1200 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Army Beta, Army Alpha, David Wechsler
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Assessing intelligence: psychologists define intelligence testing as a method for assessing an individual"s mental aptitudes and comparing them with others using numerical scores. Alfred binet: binet and his colleague theodore simon started modern intelligence testing by developing questions that would predict children"s future progress in the paris school system. Lewis terman: terman (in the us) adapted binet"s test for american school children and named the test the stanford-binet test. The formula of intelligence quotient (iq) introduced by. Norming: comparing people in the same age group to one another. U. s. government (1910) had english translation of binet test given to immigrants to determine which might be mentally defective: 83% of jews, 80% of hungarians, 87% of russians, and. 79% of italians immigrating to u. s. were considered to be. Group-administered intelligence tests created for army recruits during world war i: army alpha & army beta tests, 47% scored at a mental age of 13 years or lower.
