PSY 362 Chapter Notes - Chapter 10: Eugenics
26 Mar 2018
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Sir francis galton : influenced by cousin charles darwin; interested in the measurement of individual differences. Assumed that intelligence is a matter of sensory acuity because humans can know the world only through senses; more acute the senses, the more intelligent intelligence of the population. Eugenics : the use of selective breeding to increase the general. Nature-nurture controversy : debate over the extent to which. Words and images important attributes are inherited or learned. Galton wrote 75 words and each were written on a separate piece of paper. Glanced at each word and noted his own response to them on a different piece of paper. Three things struck him about his study. Responses to stimulus words tended to be constant. His responses were often drawn from childhood experiences. He felt that such a procedure revealed aspects of the mind never revealed before.
