首页
外语
计算机
考研
公务员
职业资格
财经
工程
司法
医学
专升本
自考
实用职业技能
登录
外语
A Frenchman, the psychologist Alfred Binet, published the first standardized test of human intelligence in 1905. But it was an A
A Frenchman, the psychologist Alfred Binet, published the first standardized test of human intelligence in 1905. But it was an A
admin
2011-02-11
40
问题
A Frenchman, the psychologist Alfred Binet, published the first standardized test of human intelligence in 1905. But it was an American, Lewis Terman, a psychology professor at Stanford, who thought to divide a test taker’s "mental age", as revealed by that score, by his or her chronological age to derive a number that he called the "intelligence quotient", or IQ. It would be hard to think of a pop-scientific coinage that has had a greater impact of the way people think about themselves and others.
No country embraced the IQ—and the application of IQ testing to restructure society—mote thoroughly than the U.S. Every year millions of Americans have their IQ measured, many with a direct descendant of Binet’s original test, the Stanford-Binet, although not necessarily for the purpose Binet intended. He developed his test as a way of identifying public school students who needed extra help in learning; and that is still one of its leading uses.
But the broader and more controversial use of IQ testing has its roots in a theory of intelligence—part science, part sociology—that developed in the late 19th century, before Binte’s work and entirely separate from it, Championed first by Charles Darwin’ s cousin Francis Galton, it held that intelligence was the most valuable human attribute, and that if people who had a lot of it could be identified and put in leadership positions, all of Society would benefit.
Terman believed IQ tests should be used to conduct a great s6rting out of the population, so that young people would be assigned on the basis of their scores to particular levels in the school system, which would lead to corresponding socioeconomic destinations in adult life. The beginning of the IQ-testing movement overlapped with the eugenics movement—hugely popular in America and Europe among the "better sort" before Hitler gave it a bad name—which held that intelligence was mostly inherited and that people-deficient in it should be discouraged from reproducing. The state sterilization that Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes notoriously endorsed in a 1927.Supreme Court decision was done with an IQ score as justification.
The American IQ promoters scored a great coup during World War I when they persuaded the Army to give IQ tests to 1.7 million inductees. It was the world’s first mass administration of an intelligence test, and many of the standardized tests in use today can be traced back to it: the now ubiquitous and obsessed-over SAT(Stud), Ability Test); the Wechsler, taken by several million people a year, according to its publisher; and Terman’s own National Intelligence Test, originally used in tracking elementary school children. All these tests took from the Army the basic technique of measuring intelligence mainly by asking vocabulary questions (synonyms, antonyms, analogies, reading comprehension).
According to Termon’s theory, a twelve-year-old boy’s mental age is 10, then his IQ number is about______.
选项
A、0.8
B、0.9
C、1.0
D、1,2
答案
A
解析
第一段讲述了计算方法,用mental age除以实际年龄,即10/12等于0。8,故选A。
转载请注明原文地址:https://kaotiyun.com/show/3eeO777K
0
专业英语八级
相关试题推荐
ThereisagreatconcerninEuropeandNorthAmericaaboutdecliningstandardsofliteracyinschools.InBritain,thefactthat
1Duringtheadolescence,thedevelopmentofpoliticalideologybecomesapparentintheindividual;ideologyhereisdefined
Whyshouldanyonebuythelatestvolumeintheever-expandingDictionaryofNationalBiography?Idonotmeanthatitisbad,as
A、startaprivate-sectorstudyonabilateralfreetradeagreementB、beprudentindealingwiththehistoryissueC、makedecisio
A、policeprovideddetailinformationsaboutthegirlB、Tobagohasapopulationof1.2millionC、homicideincreasedinTobagoD、
A、treatment,funds,preventionandgettingorganizationsinvolvedB、prevention,education,treatmentandgettingorganizationsi
AmongthegreatMiddleEnglishpoets,GeoffreyChaucerisknownforhisproductionof______.
A、Accordingtothemovementandvibrationsofhotgasses.B、ThetradewindsblowonEarth.C、Therivers.D、Thesoundtravelthro
名声、财产、知识等等都是身外之物,人人都可求而得之,但没有人能够代替你感受人生。你死以后,没有人能够代替你再活一次。如果你真正意识到了这一点,你就会明白,活在世上,最重要的事情就是活出你自己的特色和滋味来。你的人生是否有意义,衡量的标准不是外在的成功,而是
ThetwoneweststateswhichjoinedtheUnitedStatesare______.
随机试题
在Word中,在字体设置中可以进行设置的是_______。
鼻黏膜功能生理调节中,下述正确的描述是
小儿药物剂量计算常用方法不包括
科学技术对于法律有较大的影响,以下属于科学技术可以影响的范围是:
对于现代意义的城镇理解不对的一项是()。
背景某市准备建设一座图书馆工程,建筑面积为8000m2,预计投资约1.200万元,建设工期为12个月,工程采用公开招标方式确定承包商。建设单位为节约开支,决定自行招标,并向当地的建设行政主管部门提出招标申请,得到批准,建设单位依照法定程序进行公开
某工程于2006年3月15日通过竣工验收,建设单位于3月31日办理了竣工验收备案手续。按照《建设工程质量管理条例》的规定,该工程外墙面防渗漏的最低保修期限截止日期是()。
下列不属于宏观环境分析的是()。
按照增值税的有关规定,下列外购项目中可以作为进项税额从销项税额中抵扣的是()。
Itisnaturaltofeeluncomfortableinalanguageclass.You’reusedtobeinginclasseswherethemodeofcommunication—the
最新回复
(
0
)