Measuring Minds: Henry Herbert Goddard and the Origins of American Intelligence Testing

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Cambridge University Press, 2001年4月23日 - 466 頁
This book offers the first complete study of the origins of American intelligence testing. It follows the life and work of Henry Herbert Goddard, America's first intelligence tester and author of the famous American eugenics tract, The Kallikak Family. The book traces the controversies surrounding Goddard's efforts to bring Alfred Binet's tests of intelligence from France to America and to introduce them into the basic institutions of American life--from hospitals to classrooms to courtrooms. It shows how testers used their findings to address the most pressing social and political questions of their day, including povery, crime, prostitution, alcoholism, immigration restriction, and military preparedness. It also explores the broader legacies of the testing movement by showing how Goddard's ideas helped to reshape the very meaning of mental retardation, special education, clinical psychology, and the "normal" mind in ways that would be felt for the rest of the century.
 

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Spirit and Science Faith Healing and Mission
16
A Little Child Shall Lead Them Educational Evangelism and Child Study
44
Psychological Work among the FeebleMinded The Medical Meaning of Mental Deficiency
71
Psychological Work in the Schools The Statistical Meaning of Subnormality
105
Causes and Consequences The Kallikak Family as Eugenic Parable
143
The Biology and Sociology of Prevention Defectives Dependents and Delinquents
186
Psychological Work and the State Reformers Professionals and the Public
222
Psychological Work and the Nation The Political Meaning of Intelligence
261
Leaving Vineland Popularity Notoriety and a Place in History
301
Psychological Legacies Historical Lessons and Luck
348
Abbreviations Used in the Notes
365
Notes
366
Major Manuscript Collections Consulted
440
Publications by Henry Herbert Goddard
442
Index
449
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