AP PSYCHOLOGY

Detailed explanation-1: -Galton, a 19th-century polymath (who also invented scientific meteorology), wanted to better understand the mind, and the concept of ‘personality’. That’s what drove him to create the first personality test – a questionnaire asking his fellow smarties at the Royal Society of London about themselves.

Detailed explanation-2: -An explorer and anthropologist, Francis Galton is known for his pioneering studies of human intelligence. He devoted the latter part of his life to eugenics, i.e. improving the physical and mental makeup of the human species by selected parenthood.

Detailed explanation-3: -Galton’s eugenics was a program to artificially produce a better human race through regulating marriage and thus procreation. Galton put particular emphasis on “positive eugenics", aimed at encouraging the physically and mentally superior members of the population to choose partners with similar traits.

Detailed explanation-4: -In the late 1800s, Englishman Sir Francis Galton (1822-1911) became one of the first people to study intelligence. He tried to measure physical characteristics of noblemen and created a laboratory to measure their reaction time and other physical and sensory qualities.