PSYC 1010 Study Guide - Final Guide: Chiropractic, Intellectual Disability, Polymath

• School: York University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 1010
• Professor: Olena Kobzar

Document Summary

Iq: a smart history of a failed idea. Iq tests are used on children to determine whether they would get into to top ivy league schools. But its not until the age of sixteen is where the iq is more stable. Francis galton famous polymath, who liked to measure and count things, contributed to many tools, definitions and constructs of psychology. After reading his cousins, charles darwin"s, on the origin of species, galton wanted to analyze human mental abilities in terms of evolution and improve the human race. He believed that that mental ability was inherited from family and that society is structured naturally. For him, women, blacks and the lower classes occupied inferior positions because of their lack of innate talent. He applied the idea of natural selection to human breeding. Eugenics - the science of improving a population by controlled breeding to increase the occurrence of desirable heritable characteristics.