Intelligence Tests and Achievements in Schools

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There is just as much reason for saying that the instincts are neutral and that the environment makes vices or virtues out of them, as that instincts determine the result. Neither position is in fact, tenable, and the names and phrases cited above are descriptive of the combined effects of nature and nurture. "Characteristics, as such," as Jennings has recently stated with great clarity and convincingness "are not inherited at all, what one inherits is a certain material that under certain conditions will produce a particular characteristic; if those conditions are not supplied, some other characteristic is produced." The influence of a given home may make, in the case of a certain native equipment, a vicious outcome likely; even society at its best may in the rare case by ill-ordered for the functioning of some inheritable factors as that resulting in oversexedness; for its should be noted that this is a name not of the inheritable factor alone but of a condition to which both nature and environment are contributory.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR John A. Walton

Prof. John A. Walton did his M.A. in Psychology from Columbia University and taught psychology in various colleges in America and Australia. Professor Walton later conducted some studies under the auspicies of the United Nations and worked in some under developed countries as an expert in the field of testing. He developed some objective types of test for various stages of education. Dr. Walton is at present professor Emeritus in America and travels extensively to the various countries of the world to deliver lectures and hold workshops.

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Title
Intelligence Tests and Achievements in Schools
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Edition
1st ed.
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8171699138
Length
vii+226p., Figures.
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