Early Conceptions and Tests of Intelligence.

xiv, 320pp, index, bibliography. Or red blind stamped cloth. Volume in the Measurement and Adjustment Series. Interesting history of the concept of intelligence and intelligence testing. Chapter headings include: Ancient and Popular Conceptions of Intelligence; Early Conceptions and Treatment of Exceptional Individuals; Intelligence Conceived as a Complex of Intellectual Faculties; The Effects of Associationism on Primitive Conceptions of Intelligence; Early Tests of Intelligence; Sensory and Particular tests versus Tests of Complex and Higher Functions; The Historical Background of the Binot-Simon Tests; Binet's First Intelligence test; Later Developments & the 1908 Scale; Evaluations of the Binet Method of Testing and the Scale of 1911; The Manifestations of Intelligence and Problems Regarding Intelligence and Uses of Tests. Size: 8vo.