Sir Francis Galton (16 Feb 1822 Jahr – 17 Jan 1911 Jahr)

Beschreibung:

British Statistician

-Cousin to Charles Darwin

-Numerous non-psychology contributions
-----exploration, meteorology, fingerprinting

-Desire to apply evolutionary thinking to the question of intelligence
-----Eminence rates - # of distinguished("special") people relative to everyone else (eminence = greatness)
-------------"Hereditary Genius" published in 1869
------Surveys and twin studies
-Converged on conclusion that intelligence was inherited

-Implications:
-----Eugenics (IQ)
-----Need for accurate measurement

-Studying Individual Differences: Anthropomorphic Lab - measurements based on...
(1) physical measures
(2) sensory/motor capacity (e.g., Galton whistle)
(3) related through "correlations"

-Studying Individual Differences: Imagery
-----Misinterpreted his own data - scientists showed more imagery than he realized

-Studying individual differences: Association
-----Word Association Test
-----Hinted at unconscious

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