Introduction to Psychology 10th Edition by Rod Plotnik,Haig Kouyoumdjian

Exercise 5

Early psychologists ignored Binet's warning about misusing IQ tests. For example, in the early 1900s, Terman believed that IQ tests did measure (a) _____ intelligence, and he wanted to use IQ tests to sort people into categories. Terman's view was adopted by Robert Yerkes, who wanted to use IQ tests to rank the intelligence of (b) _____ entering the United States. In the 1920s, (c) _____ were written to exclude citizens from certain countries because Yerkes had ranked these individuals low in intelligence.