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Lewis Terman
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Lewis Terman
Major Perspective
Terman believed on the nature side of things. He believed that children were born with their intelligence.
According to Terman, when a child is born, they are already "programmed" of how smart they will be later in life.
Improvement of IQ Testing and Creations
He was considered to have improved the Alfred Binet IQ testing. Terman's creation was the Stanford Achievement Tests.
It became a common aptitude test in public schools, job aptitude, and military induction tests.
Studying Gifted Children
Children who scored high on his IQ tests were likely to become society's leaders in adulthood
1,000 children were considered "gifted" under his tests, but the results of his studies are considered incorrect because of Terman's frequent offering of guidance and assistance to these children.
Results of the Study
Key Terms from Theory
The result that Terman found was that children who scored higher on the tests did in fact labeled as "gifted" and remained that way for the remainder through out the study.
Intelligence test- method for assessing an individual's mental aptitudes and comparing them with those of others, using numerical scores
Mental age- measure of intelligence test performance devised by Binet
Stanford-Binet- the widely used American revision (by Terman at Stanford University) of Binet's original intelligence test
Criticism of his study was inevitable. Once the children from his studies were scored as "gifted, he took them under his wing and mentored them. Terman helped the children with their studies and path choices. Many a times, he even referred to the subjects as "my gifted children."
Intelligence quotient (IQ)- defined originally as the ration of mental age(ma) to chronological age(ca) multiplied by 100 (IQ=ma/ca x 100)