Philip E Vernon
Biographic Data
| ID | 257616 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Philip E Vernon |
| GIVEN NAMES | Philip E |
| FAMILY NAME | Vernon |
| SIGNATURE | VERNON P E |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of London |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 54 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 97 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 54 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1930 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2014 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Intelligence and Cultural Environment (Psychology Revivals)
Oriental Languages
Invited Address: Scottish Council for Research in Education
S ummary .— Changing ideas on intelligence testing and the heritability of intelligence are followed through a fifty‐year period. Common criticisms of intelligence tests are examined, but it is concluded that intellectual tests will continue to be of value in diagnosing the strengths and weaknesses, particularly of exceptional children. The arguments about the extent to which heredity and environment contribute to the development of intelligence …
Personality Correlates of Over‐achievement and Under‐achievement
S ummary . 292 Canadian Grade 7 students were given a three‐part group intelligence test, a two‐part mathematics test, and a three‐part English test. Scores on these tests, together with teachers' grades for these subjects, were compared with personality questionnaire measures of aggression, positive and negative self‐concept, and a sentence completion test of attitudes to school and other areas. Substantial correlations were obtained between the…
Absolute pitch: A case study
The auditory skill known as ‘absolute pitch’ is discussed, and it is shown that this differs greatly in accuracy of identification or reproduction of musical tones from ordinary discrimination of ‘tonal height’, which is to some extent trainable. The present writer possessed absolute pitch for almost any tone or chord over the normal musical range, from about the age of 17 to 52. He then started to hear all music one semitone too high, and now at…
The distinctive ness of field independence
Effects of Administration and Scoring on Divergent Thinking Tests
A survey of research on tests of divergent thinking shows that performance at these tests may be considerably affected by the conditions under which they are given, the instructions, and the way the subjects interpret the task requirement. In particular, Wallach and Kogan considered that they measure a creativity factor distinct from convergent intelligence only if given individually, under permissive, untimed, 'game-like' conditions. However, se…
Administration of Group Intelligence Tests to East African Pupils
Intelligence tests could be even more valuable for educational predictions in the developing, than in Western, countries, because of the large variations in efficiency and linguistic background in different primary schools. But there may be serious problems in getting them across to unsophisticated pupils, especially with printed instructions only.An experiment was carried out with fourteen top primary classes in Tanzanian schools, where a short …
Bookreviews
Ability factors and environmental influences
Walter VanDyke Bingham left with his will a memorandum suggesting that there be established, under the auspices of the American Psychological Association, an annual lectureship to call attention to the importance of the discovery and development of talented persons. His wishes have been carried out by Mrs. Walter VanDyke Bingham in her continuing support of the “discovery of the talented” lectures, of which the following paper was the twelfth. Pr…
Handbook of Research on Teaching
Personality Assessment: A Critical Survey
Environmental Handicaps and Intellectual Development: Part I
This is the first of two artioles whose object is to throw light on the development of, and retardation in, abilities by comparison of patterns of test scores with assessments of environment, both within and between certain contrasted cultural groups.A series of verbal tests is described, some group, some individual, which were applied to a representative group of 100 boys close to 11:0 years in South-East England, and to a sample of fifty simila…
Environmental Handicaps and Intellectual Development: Part Ii
This article gives the comparative results of samples of West Indian and English 10 1/2-11-year boys on a battery of perceptual and performance tests. These, together with the results on educational and verbal tests and assessments of background variables, were analysed, and a similar factor structure was obtained in the two groups.The deficit of West Indian boys varies considerably with different tests, being most marked for practical and some n…
The Measurement of Learning Ability
S ummary .— Intelligence tests are often assumed to predict a child's ability to learn, although they are seldom based on situations that directly involve any learning. A battery of nine group tests was devised for junior school children, each based on the learning of an unfamiliar task, and yielding six scores for successive stages of practice. These were applied to 8–9 and 10–11 year pupils, along with a number of more conventional tests, in or…
The Measurement of Abilities
The Determinants of Reading Comprehension
The Contributions to Education of Sir Godfrey Thomson
The contributions to education of Sir Godfrey Thomson
(1962). The contributions to education of Sir Godfrey Thomson. British Journal of Educational Studies: Vol. 10, No. 2, pp. 123-137
New Tests
Concept Formation and Personality
The Pool of Ability
A Study of Children's Interests and Comprehension at a Science Museum
As part of an attempt to increase attractiveness and usefulness of a Children's Gallery in a Science Museum, an inquiry was made into numbers and types of children who visit it, their behaviour there, and extent to which they comprehend what they have seen. Methods of investigation included a sampling survey of attendances at different times of day and periods of year, stopwatch recording of times spent at different exhibits and charts of movemen…
A Comparative Study of Educational Attainments in England and Scotland
Symposium on the Effects of Coaching and Practice in Intelligence Tests: V.—C onclusions
Intelligence and Cultural Environment (Psychology Revivals)
Personality Assessment: A Critical Survey
A test for personal values
Ability factors and environmental influences
Walter VanDyke Bingham left with his will a memorandum suggesting that there be established, under the auspices of the American Psychological Association, an annual lectureship to call attention to the importance of the discovery and development of talented persons. His wishes have been carried out by Mrs. Walter VanDyke Bingham in her continuing support of the “discovery of the talented” lectures, of which the following paper was the twelfth. Pr…
The field of personality
The Significance of the Rorschach Test 1
The Rorschach Ink‐blot Test. Ii
Environmental Handicaps and Intellectual Development: Part Ii
This article gives the comparative results of samples of West Indian and English 10 1/2-11-year boys on a battery of perceptual and performance tests. These, together with the results on educational and verbal tests and assessments of background variables, were analysed, and a similar factor structure was obtained in the two groups.The deficit of West Indian boys varies considerably with different tests, being most marked for practical and some n…
Concept Formation and Personality
A Study of Children's Interests and Comprehension at a Science Museum
As part of an attempt to increase attractiveness and usefulness of a Children's Gallery in a Science Museum, an inquiry was made into numbers and types of children who visit it, their behaviour there, and extent to which they comprehend what they have seen. Methods of investigation included a sampling survey of attendances at different times of day and periods of year, stopwatch recording of times spent at different exhibits and charts of movemen…
The Rorschach Ink‐blot Test. Iii
The Rorschach Ink‐blot Test 1 . I
Effects of Administration and Scoring on Divergent Thinking Tests
A survey of research on tests of divergent thinking shows that performance at these tests may be considerably affected by the conditions under which they are given, the instructions, and the way the subjects interpret the task requirement. In particular, Wallach and Kogan considered that they measure a creativity factor distinct from convergent intelligence only if given individually, under permissive, untimed, 'game-like' conditions. However, se…
Administration of Group Intelligence Tests to East African Pupils
Intelligence tests could be even more valuable for educational predictions in the developing, than in Western, countries, because of the large variations in efficiency and linguistic background in different primary schools. But there may be serious problems in getting them across to unsophisticated pupils, especially with printed instructions only.An experiment was carried out with fourteen top primary classes in Tanzanian schools, where a short …
Handbook of Research on Teaching
Environmental Handicaps and Intellectual Development: Part I
This is the first of two artioles whose object is to throw light on the development of, and retardation in, abilities by comparison of patterns of test scores with assessments of environment, both within and between certain contrasted cultural groups.A series of verbal tests is described, some group, some individual, which were applied to a representative group of 100 boys close to 11:0 years in South-East England, and to a sample of fifty simila…
Symposium on the Effects of Coaching and Practice in Intelligence Tests: V.—C onclusions
Post‐graduate Training of Teachers in Psychology
Educational Abilities of Training College Students
The personality of the composer
The field of personality
A test for personal values
Studies in expressive movement.
Cover and several pages from Studies in Expressive Movement, a book about personality traits.
The Health of Great Composers
The Rorschach Ink‐blot Test. Ii
The Rorschach Ink‐blot Test. Iii
The Rorschach Ink‐blot Test 1 . I
Music Tests and Psychology
Great Britain
Can the "Total Personality" Be Studied Objectively
The Significance of the Rorschach Test 1
The matching method applied to investigations of personality
The Stanford-Binet Test as a Psychometric Method
A Study of the Norms and the Validity of Certain Mental Tests at a Child Guidance Clinic
The Decline in Musical Taste
Educational Abilities of Training College Students
An Analysis of the Conception of Morale
A New Method of Marking English Compositions
Is the Doctrine of Instincts Dead? A Symposium 1: II.—S ome O bjections to the T heory of H uman I nstincts 2
Psychological effects of air-raids
Data collected from 50 observers confirm newspaper accounts of the imperturbability of the majority of the population. Acclimatization even to heavy raids at night has been remarkable. A considerable proportion manage to sleep through the terrific racket. There is no doubt that being with others helps the majority of people, and that those who live alone tend to find raids much more trying. Introspective accounts of what it feels like when bombs …
The Individuality of Keys
A Study of War Attitudes
An Experiment on the Value of the Film and Film‐strip in the Instruction of Adults
Classifying high-grade occupational interests
Psychology (47 works) · Computer Science (26 works) · Library science (21 works) · Citation (20 works) · Social Psychology (16 works) · Mathematics education (12 works) · Psychoanalysis (10 works) · Sociology (8 works) · Developmental psychology (7 works) · Linguistics (7 works)