Psychological Test, Record Sheet Combination of Yerkes-Bridges Point Scale and Stanford Revision of Binet-Simon Scale for Use with Adult Women
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content: Laboratory of Social Hygiene
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content: While at the Boston Psychopathic Hospital, psychologist Robert M. Yerkes of Harvard University, James W. Bridges an intern there who would go on to the University of Alberta, and Rose S. Hardwick, an assistant in psychology who would go on to the Boston School of Physical Education, devised a point scale for testing the intelligence of individual children, modifying ideas of Binet. This would be published, in revised form, as the Yerkes-Bridges Point Scale. Meanwhile, in California, Lewis M. Terman and his associates developed the Stanford Revision of the Binet-Simon Tests, also designed for children. This test combines the two scales for use with adult women. It was published by the Laboratory School of Social Hygiene in Bedford Hills, New York. This organization, funded by John D. Rockefeller, sought to better understand the psychological and physical problems of women serving criminal sentences in the state of New York. It was founded in 1911 and seems to have operated into the 1920s. The Yerkes-Bridges point scale was first published in 1915 and the Stanford Revision of the Binet–Simon in 1916, which gives a rough date for the test. The document itself is undated and has no author listed.
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content: References:
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content: Yerkes, R.M., Bridges, J.W., and R.S. Hardwick, <I>A Point Scale for Measuring Mental Ability</I>, Baltimore: Warwick and York, 1915.
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content: Fernald, Mabel R., “Practical Applications of Psychology to the Operations of a Clearing House,” <I>Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology</I>, 1917, 7 #5, 722-731. Fernald was then on the staff of the Laboratory of Social Hygiene.
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content: United States: New York, Bedford Hills
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content: Mathematics
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content: Psychological Tests
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content: Medicine and Science: Mathematics
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content: Science & Mathematics
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content: Gift of Samuel Kavruck
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content: National Museum of American History
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content: 1990.0034.029
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content: 1990.0034.029
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content: 1990.0034
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content: Psychological Test
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content: paper (overall material)
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content: overall: .1 cm x 21.5 cm x 28 cm; 1/32 in x 8 15/32 in x 11 1/32 in