psychology exam 3 study guide

Describe the eugenics movement that began in the early 1900s. According to this view, who should be encouraged to have children and who should be discouraged from having children

the eugenic movement encouraged wealthy people to have children because it was thought to better improve the gene pool, this is because it was said that rich people were smarter and poor people were stupid hence why they were poor.

Why did Alfred Binet and his colleague Theodore Simon originally develop a test to measure a student's mental abilities? Did Binet believe that remedial help could improve a child's performance in school?

Binet developed a test to measure a students mental abilities to assess them based on their skills and knowledge, basically a placement test. Binet believed that remedial help could benefit improvement in a child's performance in school.

What is the "shape" that the normal distribution of intelligence scores looks like when they are plotted on a graph?

a bell shaped curve

According to lecture, what are the three reasons that intelligence testing became so popular in America at the beginning of the 20th century?

intelligence testing became popular due to the surge of immigrants that entered america as well as testing the skills and knowledge of children to better know their placement and help them when it came to placing them in school due to the mandatory school laws passed. another reason was placement testing for world war 1.

According to lecture, why were the scores on the Binet-Simon test significantly lower for immigrants entering the United States compared to the score of the average American?

scores were lower because they couldnt read or understand english

Why did psychologists eventually abandon Terman's original IQ formula? Do people really become less intelligent when they get older?

termans original iq formula was dismissed because the inaccuracy of it, due the chronical age getting bigger as people aged.

What were the four features of the Binet-Simon approach to intelligence described in lecture and your textbook?

the four features of the Binet-Simon approach were to assess students on their academic ability, identify what skills they needed help on, believed that training could only help students and that the test was based on only data.

Describe Lewis Terman's revised version of the Binet-Simon test that became known as the Stanford-Binet intelligence test. What was the formula used to determine a person's IQ, i.e., chronological age vs. mental age?

the stanford-binet test was revised as a scoring system and was called the IQ test. the formula used was a persons mental age, the scores relative to people in other age groups, and their chronological age, which was is a persons actual age. MA/CA.

Describe the Wechsler Intelligence test/tests. What are the advantages of the Wechsler test compared to earlier measures of intelligence described in lecture?

the wechsler intelligence test