GROWTH DEVELOPMENT CHILD
MEASUREMENT OF INTELLIGENCE
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Question
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He took the position that intelligence is largely determined by heredity.
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He advocated the development of special programs to tap the intellectual potential of the culturally disadvantaged.
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He developed tests that identified those children who were unable to profit from a normal education.
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None of the above
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Detailed explanation-1: -Galton believed that intelligence and most other physical and mental characteristics of humans were inherited and biologically based.
Detailed explanation-2: -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-3: -ir Francis Galton (1822-1911) was a British scientist who developed a controversial, and today discredited, method for measuring human intelligence. Galton argued that measuring people’s physical attributes, such as eyesight, strength of grip, hearing, etc., was a valid way of assessing their intelligence.
Detailed explanation-4: -Galton was convinced that social and mental traits, like talent and intelligence, were inherited (Galton, 1865; Galton, 1869).