PA U1

The first intelligence measurement test based on superior and complex functions was elaborated by:

• Binet

• Cattell

• Galton

IQ (Stern)

• mental age/ chronological age x100

• chronological age/ mental age x100

Select the WRONG one about Galton

• Founder of psychological assessment, differential psychology, and eugenic movement.

• Said that intelligence is innate, genetically determined (‘The heritage of Genius’)

  - Insistence on inheritance

• Importance of data collection and quantitative info.

• Created the first battery of psychological assessment tables

• Developed statistics

Select the WRONG one about Cattell

• Used the term "mental age"

• Coined the term "mental test"

• Believed that higher mental function could be assessed by measuring sensory discrimination and reaction times .

• Create dthe first battery of psychological assessment tables

• Objective procedures (psychology as a science)

Quetelet

• application of statistics (mathematics) to social sciences, biological and sociological variables follow normal distribution, developed measures of central tendency

• Importance of variability (intra/inter -species), adaptative abilities (natural selection), intelligence as different adaptability in humans , importance of heredity in evolution

• founder of first laboratory of psychology in 1879 (first experimental psychologist), physiological psychology, denied individual differences (error of measurement), considered out of lab as no psychology (no questionnaires), limitation to the development of psychological assessment

• found mobility associated with white matter and intellectual powers associated with grey matter though dissection

Who is NOT considered a founder of psyshological assessment?

• Galton

• Cattell

• Skinner

• Binet

Pinel

• Value of family records

• Value of medical records

• First classification of mental diorders

• Phrenology

Weber and Fechner

• Psychomotor centres in brain

• Found mobility associted with white matter and intellectual powers associated with grey matter through dissection

• Evaluation of subjective experience; different threshold for different people

• Value of medical records through years

Which one is NOT a rational antecedent of psych. assess.?

• Ancient China (exams for civil servant)

• Bible (Gideon´s soldiers)

• Ancient Greece (Pythagoras, Aristotle and Hippocrates)

• Macdax and Broca (Broca´s area associated with language)

• Middle Age (Luis Vives and Juan Huarte de San Juan)

Rational antecedents of psych. assess.: ARISTOTLE:

• temperaments

• importance of environment

• physiognomy through faces