Intelligence
History of IQ Tests
 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
 Henry Goddard
 Translated Binet test into English
 Lewis Terman
 Stanford-Binet scale in 1916
 Intelligence quotient for adults
 Mental age/chronological age X 100
Case Study: Ellis Island
 Ellis Island – American
Immigrants
 Dr. Goddard and Dr. Howard
Andrew Knox
 Early 20th Century
 “Culture-Free” Intelligence
Tests
John T. E. Richardson
History of IQ Tests
 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
IQ Clicker Test
Discussion:
 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?
Class Intelligence
Verbal/Linguistic
Logic/Math
Music/Rythmic
Body/Kinesthetic
Visual/Spatial
Interpersonal
Intrapersonal
Naturalist
Station Activity
Exploring Multiple Intelligences!
Sources
 http://www.free-iqtest.net/iq.asp
 http://www.iqtest.com/practicetest.html
 http://www.bgfl.org/custom/resources_ftp/client_ftp/ks3/i
ct/multiple_int/questions/questions.cfm
 Weiten, Wayne and Doug McCann. Psychology: Themes and
Variations. Toronto: Thomas Canada Limited, 2007.
 http://www.iqtest.com/history.html
 http://www.cup.columbia.edu/book/978-0-231-14168-0/