Chapter Outline

Testing Individual Differences in Ancient China

Pierre Broca’s Craniometry

Alfred Binet

1. Binet’s Early Life and Education
2. Binet’s Early Years with Jean Charcot at La Salpêtrière
1. Transfer and Polarization Studies
1. Controversy with Nancy School
3. Binet’s Research on the Development of Cognition
4. Binet at the Sorbonne
5. Binet’s Test of Intelligence
1. Experimental Studies of Intelligence
2. Binet-Simon Scales of 1905, 1908, and 1911

Henry H. Goddard

1. The Kallikaks
1. Gregor Mendel
2. Eugenic Sterilization
3. Goddard at Ellis Island
4. Goddard’s Work with Gifted Children
5. Henry Goddard: An Appreciation

Lewis M. Terman

1. Terman’s Early Life
2. Terman’s Revision of the Binet-Simon Scales
3. Terman’s Studies of Genius

Robert Mearns Yerkes

1. Yerkes’s Early Life
2. Yerkes’s Comparative Research and Early Psychometric Investigations
3. The Army Alpha and Beta Tests
4. Reaction to the Army Report
5. The Challenge
1. Wlater Lippmann

Later Controversies

1. The Eleven-plus Program
2. The Cyril Burt Affair
3. The Identical Twin Evidence
4. The Burt Case Reopened

Recent Developments in Intelligence Testing

1. The Bell Curve Revisited