Testing Intelligence and AchievementMacmillan, 1928 - 399 pages |
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Page 114 - A mother sent her boy to the river and told him" to bring back exactly 7 pints of water. She gave him a 3-pint vessel and a 5-pint vessel. Show me how the boy can measure out exactly 7 pints of water, using nothing but these two vessels and not guessing at the amount. You should begin by filling the 5-pint vessel first.
Page 305 - Feeble-minded persons;* that is to say, persons in whose case there exists from birth or from an early age mental defectiveness not amounting to imbecility, yet so pronounced that they require care, supervision, and control for their own protection or for the protection of others, or, in the case of children, that they by reason of such defectiveness appear to be permanently incapable of receiving proper benefit from the instruction in ordinary schools...
Page 305 - Imbeciles; that is to say, persons in whose case there exists from birth or from an early age mental defectiveness not amounting to idiocy, yet so pronounced that they are incapable of managing themselves or their affairs, or, in the case of children, of being taught to do so...
Page 306 - The condition is a psychological one, although the criterion is a social one, and we may accordingly define amentia as a state of restricted potentiality for, or arrest of, cerebral development, in consequence of which the person affected is incapable at maturity of so adapting himself to hi* environment or to the requirements of the community as to maintair.
Page 18 - The mind must be regarded not as a functional unit, nor even as a collection of a few general faculties which work irrespective of particular material, but rather as a multitude of functions, each of which involves content as well as form, and is related closely to only a few of its fellows, and to the others with greater and greater degrees of remoteness.
Page 5 - And he who shall be said to be a sot and idiot from his birth, is such a person who cannot account or number twenty pence, nor can tell who was his father or mother, nor how old he is, etc., so as it may appear that he hath no understanding of reason what shall be for his profit, nor what for his loss.
Page 155 - ... a walking-stick, and an umbrella. My brother is eighteen : he does not smoke, nor play cricket, nor play the piano. I want to give the walking-stick to my father, and the umbrella to my mother. Which of the above shall I give my brother ? 8 Years.
Page 13 - ... test, whose questions, fixed in advance, do not suffer from the bad humor or the bad digestion of the examiner. Consequently there is no room for surprise, if we do not find in this collection of questions, any idea upon the gradation of intelligence. The child who has passed through this rolling mill comes before us with a certain total of marks, 36 for instance, or 70. We understand that 70 is nearer normal than 36 and that is all. We have no precise notion of the mental level of these candidates,...
Page 9 - Until the phenomena of any branch of knowledge have been subjected to measurement and number, it cannot assume the status and dignity of a science.
Page 139 - Our statistics show that in a large majority of cases the vocabulary test alone will give us an intelligence quotient within 10 per cent of that secured by the entire scale.