Making intelligence functional
Walter Dill Scott and applied psychological testing in World War I
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4791835 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Richard T Von Mayrhauser (Slippery Rock University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1989 |
| Volume | 25 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 60-72 |
| Publication date | 1989-01-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of the History of the Behavioral Sciences (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0022-5061 • E-ISSN: 1520-6696 |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1002/1520-6696(198901)25:1<60::aid-jhbs2300250105>3.0.co;2-r |
| PMID | 11608677 |
| OpenAlex | W2054333838 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 8 |
While ostensively constructing the first national “group tests of intelligence,” psychology's war leaders adopted a functionalist conception of intelligence that made the criterion of the tests not evolutionary “general intelligence,” but environmentally relevant features thereof. Breaking with the established, structuralist conception of American hereditarian testing, psychologists Walter Dill Scott, Walter Van Dyke Bingham, and Edward L. Thorndike implemented Alfred Binet's pragmatically vague notion of “intelligence in general.”
Developmental psychology · Epistemology · Human intelligence · Psychoanalysis · Sociology · Test (biology) · Academic and Historical Perspectives in Psychology · History of Science and Medicine · Philosophy · Psychology
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| Citations per year | 0.23 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 1991 - 2019 (29) |
| Highly cited | No |