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3 - A History of Research on Intelligence

Part 2: Psychological Theory, Research, and Practice in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries

from Part I - Intelligence and Its Measurement

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  13 December 2019

By
Robert J. Sternberg
Edited by
Robert J. Sternberg
Robert J. Sternberg
Affiliation:
Cornell University, New York
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Summary

In this chapter, I review the history of psychological accounts of intelligence in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. I open with an account of the thinking of Galton and Binet. Although Binet is often viewed as atheoretical, I show this not to be the case at all. I then discuss some of their successors, including Spearman, Thomson, Holzinger, Thurstone, Guilford, Guttman, Burt, Vernon, Cattell, Carroll, and Johnson and Bouchard.

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BinetCarrollCattellGaltonSpearmanThomsonThurstone
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The Cambridge Handbook of Intelligence , pp. 31 - 46
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2020

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