Background

Question 1

Origin

Answer 1

First intelligence tests were developed in France in the early 1900s. Used to test children with a lower mental age and put them in special schools, later adopted by the US.

Question 2

Yerkes

Answer 2

Adapted these tests to be administered to groups of army recruits prior to WW1

Question 3

What did yerkes believe

Answer 3

Believed that intelligence was influenced by genetics and could not be changed