Short and Long Term Memory Improvement

Brain Fitness Exercises

February 5th, 2009 Subscribe To Our Feed

When French psychologist Alfred Binet designed the first standardized intelligence test, he felt strongly that an IQ score shouldn’t become a label. Binet feared that a low IQ score could affect a person’s self esteem as well as the opinions of others. But it wasn’t long before people were using IQ test scores to categorize and discriminate. Henry Goddard, who popularized IQ testing in the US, held that low IQ was caused by a recessive gene. Goddard’s views echoed those of the American public at the time, who worried that a disproportionate number of immigrants were of low intelligence.

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