BIOLOGICAL BASES OF BEHAVIOR
PREDICTING INDIVIDUAL DIFFERENCES
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selective breeding of highly intelligent people
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creation of special education programs for intellectually inferior children
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construction of culturally and racially unbiased tests of intelligence.
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use of factor analysis for identification of various types of intelligence
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identification of lower IQ students in order to target more specific tutoring help.
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Detailed explanation-1: –The “science” of improving human stock by giving “the more suitable races or strains of blood a better chance of prevailing speedily over the less suitable."
Detailed explanation-2: -Eugenics: The science of human improvement by better breeding.
Detailed explanation-3: -Heritability of intelligence refers to: the amount of group variation in intelligence that can be attributed to genetics. The most widely used modern intelligence test was developed by: David Wechsler.
Detailed explanation-4: -Intelligence testing began in earnest in France, when in 1904 psychologist Alfred Binet was commissioned by the French government to find a method to differentiate between children who were intellectually normal and those who were inferior.