Intelligence

 Sir Francis Galton  Studied based on their success and accomplishments  Intelligence is inherited  Modern Intelligence Testing  Alfred Binet  Published the first useful intelligence test in 1905  Binet’s scale to measure child’s mental age History of IQ Tests

 Henry Goddard  Translated Binet test into English  Lewis Terman  Stanford-Binet scale in 1916  Intelligence quotient for adults  Mental age/chronological age X 100

 Ellis Island – American Immigrants  Dr. Goddard and Dr. Howard Andrew Knox  Early 20 th Century  “Culture-Free” Intelligence Tests Case Study: Ellis Island John T. E. Richardson

 David Wechler  Intelligence test for adults called WAIS  New scoring system on normal distribution (bell curve)  Sternberg’s Triarchic Theory  Culture  Experience  Cognition – practical, analytical, creative History of IQ Tests

 Emotional Intelligence  The ability to perceive and express emotion, assimilate emotion in thought, understand and reason with emotion and regular emotion  1980s History of IQ Tests

IQ Clicker Test

 If you do badly on the IQ test, you are unintelligent  What kinds of questions are on the test?  What sorts of questions are missing? Discussion:

Class Intelligence

Exploring Multiple Intelligences! Station Activity

   ct/multiple_int/questions/questions.cfm ct/multiple_int/questions/questions.cfm  Weiten, Wayne and Doug McCann. Psychology: Themes and Variations. Toronto: Thomas Canada Limited,   Sources