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

Klappentext Explores intelligence testing in the US through the career of Henry Herbert Goddard. 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.

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• 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: Hardback
• Released: 13.03.1998
• EAN: 9780521443739
• ISBN: 978-0-521-44373-9
• No. of pages: 480
• Series: Cambridge Studies in the Histo
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Natural sciences (general); Non-fiction book > Psychology, esoterics, spirituality, anthroposophy > Psychology: general, reference works