History of Intelligence and Intelligence testing

  • Alfred Binet IQ

    Binet started to develop a test to identify children with special needs in school. The test was the IQ test
  • Lewis Terman IQ

    Lewis Terman adapted Binet's tests to numerically measure inherited intelligence
  • Primary Mental Abilities

    Thurstone's primary mental abilities breaks intelligence into seven factors.
  • General Intelligence

    Spearman's theory of general intelligence that basic intelligence predicts our abilities in varied academic areas
  • Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale

    David Weschsler created the most widely used intelligence test which consists of 11 subtests
  • ACT

    Evert Franklin Lindquest performed the first ACT test which is a standardized test for High School Achievment.
  • Fluid and Crystallised Intelligence

    Raymond Catell created Fluid and Crystallised Intelligence which suggested that there are two components of "g" that being fluid and crystallised.
  • Guilford

    Guiliford disagreed with the idea of "g" and suggested that intelligence has 180 elementary ablities divided into three sectors
  • Multiple Intelligences

    Howard Gardner has theory that humas have multiple intelligences
  • Triarchic Theory

    Robert Sternberg's theory of three intelligences including analytical, creative, and practical