Worksheet # 5

Worksheet # 5 Personality Theory Spring 2001

Name _____________ Due Date : Monday, April 2nd

This worksheet is devoted to Raymond Cattell and the 16pf measure he developed.

Go to http://www.stanford.edu/~cattell/rbcmain.htm . This site has been set up by Dr. Cattell's family in memoriam.

Click on "Biography link"

1. Cattell was a prolific researcher and writer. During his lifetime, he wrote approximately _______ books and _____________ research articles .

2. Raymond grew up in ____________ , where his father worked as an ______________ .

3. His first college degree was awarded in the field of __________________ .

4. Some of Cattell's early influences were _____________ , _____________, ________________, and _____________ .

5. After deciding to pursue psychology, Raymond worked on his PhD with ______________________ , who was one of the foremost researchers on human intelligence of the time.

6. At the time, there was not much work for psychologists in Britain, so he accepted an invitation from __________________ , one of the leading psychological researchers of the US, and went to _______________________ in 1937.

7. In 1942, he discussed two factor theory of intellect , in which intelligence can be classified as _______________ or ___________________ .

8. While serving at Harvard, he learned about an exciting new statistical techniques, called _________________ , which would have great impact on the development of the 16PF.

9. During WWII, like many of his fellow psychologists and intelligence researchers, he worked with the United States military in order to aid them in the process of ___________________________ .

10. In 1945, Cattell began teaching at ______________________ , where he would remain for over thirty years.

11. While in Illinois, Raymond Cattell founded the Laboratory of _________________ , whose work would later become the Institute for Personality Assessment Testing, which publishes his 16pf.

12. In 1960, Cattell called for the cooperation of personality theorists world wide. This call helped top create the ______________________________ .

13..In 1978, Cattell moved to ____________, where he began lecturing and continuing research at ___________________________ .

14. Throughout his long career, Cattell made particular advances in the fields of ____________, __________________, _______________, paticularly with respect to the use of factor analytic techniques to explore these research areas.

C lick "Back to Memorial Page" and then click on Lifetime Acheivement Award.

15. In June 1997, Raymond Cattell was selected by the APA to receive _______________________________________________ .

16. To date, only about _________________ psychologists have received this award.

17. However, before the Award could be given, the APA received many letters critical of Raymond Cattell's ___________________________________________________ .

18. As a result of these criticisms, the APA decided to ___________________________________________________________ .

19. As a result of the APA's decision, Raymond Cattell decided to ____________________________________ .

Click on "Open Letter to the APA"

21. Raymond Cattell believed that the public's misconceptions of his beliefs of race and culture were based on three factors :

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22. What did Raymond Cattell believe his position to be on race and individuality ?

23. What is beyondism ?

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25. How does Cattell characterize IQ differences between ethnic groups ?

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26. Semantics have been a major source of Cattell's woes. How is his use of the term "eugenics" different from how Nazi Germany and Adolf Hitler used the term?

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27. Would Cattell agree with the popular song lyric (song is year or two old, I think from Offspring, not entirely sure) "Been around the world and found that only stupid people are breeding " . How doe Cattell's view of selective eugenics reflected in this lyric ?

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28. Do you believe, with your modern views of technology, science, and political correctness, that Cattell's views offer a road to a better future, or represent a regression to an authoritarian past, where breeding decisions are made by governmental agencies?

Now, lets switch gears and go to http://www.ipat.com

This is the commercial; web link for the Institute of Personality Assessment Testing

This is the company founded by Cattell to publish the 16PF, his culture fair intelligence test, and other tests of personality

Click on the "About IPAT" button.

29. What was the initial goals of IPAT, when founded in 1949.

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30. What is the current goal of IPAT ?

31. Write down the IPAT mission statement, listed at the top of the page .

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32. List the two value statements which state IPAT's position on interacting with others, including their clients :

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Finally, we are going to take a version of the Culture Fair Intelligence Test, which were pioneered by Cattell. Go to http://www.queendom.com/tests/iq/index.html and click on Culture Fair Intelligence Test Link. This specific test is based on the Raven Progressive Matrices, but the test items are very similar to Cattell's culture fair intelligence test, which looks at IQ in terms of pattern recognition, and tries to avoid cultural or language based IQ questions.

33. Have you ever completed a test with these type of questions before ? If so, when and why ?

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34. Do you believe that cultural effects have been totally removed from this testing device ?

35. Did this test, in your opinion, do a good job of measuring your intelligence ?

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