Measuring Minds - Henry Herbert Goddard and the Origins of American Intelligence Testing

Zusammenfassung This book explores the early history of one of the most controversial psychological innovations of this century: intelligence testing. It follows Henry Herbert Goddard! America's first intelligence tester! as he tried to introduce this French innovation into the basic institutions of American life. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction: motives, meanings, and contexts; 1. Spirit and science: faith, healing, and mission; 2. 'A little child shall lead them': educational evangelism and child study; 3. 'Psychological work among the feeble-minded': the medical meaning of 'mental deficiency'; 4. Psychological work in the schools: the statistical meaning of 'subnormality'; 5. Causes and consequences: the Kallikak family as eugenic parable; 6. The biology and sociology of 'prevention': defectives, dependents, and delinquents; 7. Psychological work and the state: reformers, professionals, and the public; 8. Psychological work and the nation: the political meaning of intelligence; 9. Leaving Vineland: popularity, notoriety, and a place in history; Epilogue: psychological legacies, historical lessons, and luck.

Product details

• Authors: Leila Zenderland, Leila (California State University Zenderland
• Assisted by: Mitchell G. Ash (Editor), William R. Woodward (Editor)
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 23.04.2001
• EAN: 9780521003636
• ISBN: 978-0-521-00363-6
• No. of pages: 478
• Series: Cambridge Studies in the History of Psychology; Cambridge Studies in the Histo; Cambridge Studies in the Histo
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Technology > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book > Psychology, esoterics, spirituality, anthroposophy > Psychology: general, reference works