This author of The Range of Human Capacities rejected the fashionable two-factor theory and after returning to the U.S. to become chief psychologist at Bellevue Hospital would develop the prototype of his most famous contribution.
After beginning his research screening G.I.s at Camp Logan in Texas, he was sent to England to work with Charles Spearman and Karl Pearson. This author of The Range of Human Capacities rejected the fashionable two-factor theory and after returning to the U.S. to become chief psychologist at Bellevue Hospital would develop the prototype of his most famous contribution. To arrive at the "deviation quotient" he used ten or eleven verbal and performance sub-tests that sought to understand a person's global capacity to act purposefully and think rationally. Though he would later alter his diagnostic evaluations to measure the mental abilities of children, he remains best known for work with grown folks. FTP identify this psychologist and namesake of an Adult Intelligence Scale.
After beginning his research screening G.I.s at Camp Logan in Texas, he was sent to England to work with Charles Spearman and Karl Pearson.
David Wechsler