Practice question · Select all that apply
Select every statement that is TRUE about the foundations of intelligence testing.
Hints
- Only one option is false; find the one that misstates Binet's purpose.
- Binet's test was to identify students needing support, not to rank.
Show the answer
- A. Terman's ratio IQ formula worked reasonably well for children.
- B. Binet introduced the concept of mental age.
- C. How quickly you can react to a beep turned out to say almost nothing about how well you think.
- D. The ratio formula broke down for adults.
Why
Galton's poor correlations, Binet's mental age, the ratio formula's success for children, and its breakdown for adults are all true. Binet's test was practical (identifying support needs), not a smartest-to-least ranking - the one false option.
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