Improvability; Its Intercorrelations and Its Relations to Initial Ability |
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absolute gain Addition with Cancellation Addition with Multiplication Aesop's Fables average ability average gain average initial average intelligence Cancellation 2&3 children of average children of superior Class S I CLASSES INITIAL Classes SI college students colony control group correction for attenuation curves day for 20 Difference in Improvement DISTRIBUTION OF GAINS Dutch Educational Psychology England EXAMINATION FOR HIGH EXPERIMENT A ADDITION feeble-minded Feeble-minded Children final test scores Grade gross gains Indians initial ability initial and final initial efficiency INITIAL SCORE FINAL intelligence quotient judgment of form language completion lowest quarter Mayflower MENT mental age minutes a day Multiplication by Substitution Multiplication with Cancellation normal children Norsworthy numbers ordinary children ORIGINAL DATA paired Pilgrims Plymouth Companies practice period problems Puritans RAW CORRELATIONS reasoning processes relation of improvability scale SCORE FINAL SCORE settlers Thorndike Intelligence Examination Thorndike Test tion Trabue Underscore three words United States history ΙΟ ΙΟΙ
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Page 24 - JOURNAL, 23, 1912, 81. fronted, then, with cases indicating a high initial efficiency as a manifestation of superior ability to profit by practice, or plasticity ; and, on the other hand, with cases exhibiting a lower initial efficiency, with minor possibilities of practice-improvement.
Page 57 - Workman claiming it, and expressing his joy at its recovery, Mercury, pleased with his honesty, gave him the golden and the silver axes in addition to his own. The Workman, on his return to his house, related to his companions all that had happened. One of them at once resolved to try whether he could not also secure the same good fortune to himself.
Page 57 - ... THE WORKMEN. A WORKMAN, felling wood by the side of a river, let his axe drop by accident into a deep pool. Being thus deprived of the means of his livelihood, he sat down on the bank, and lamented his hard fate. Mercury appeared, and demanded the cause of his tears. He told him his misfortune, when Mercury plunged into the stream, and, bringing up a golden axe, inquired if that were the one he had lost. On his saying- that it was not his, Mercury disappeared beneath the water a second time,...
Page 57 - A WORKMAN, felling wood by the side of a river, let his axe drop - by accident into a deep pool. Being thus deprived of the means of his livelihood, he sat down on the bank and lamented his hard fate. Mercury appeared and demanded the cause of his tears. After he told him his misfortune, Mercury plunged into the stream, and, bringing up a golden axe, inquired if that were the one he had lost. On his saying that it was not his, Mercury disappeared beneath the water a second time, returned with a silver...
Page 23 - In this experiment the larger individual differences increase with equal training, showing a positive correlation of high initial ability with ability to profit by trainng.