Thomson, Godfrey Hilton, Sir, 1881-1955 (psychologist and Bell Professor of Education, University of Edinburgh)
Person
Found in 5 Collections and/or Records:
Are We Becoming Less Intelligent?, 13 May 1949
File
Identifier: Coll-1310/3/1/2/30
Scope and Contents
The lecture outlines the concept and possible explanations for a differential birth rate, and the relationship between family size and intelligence. Thomson describes the purpose and findings of the Scottish Mental Surveys and follow-up studies.
Also includes invitation from the BBC to undertake the talk, and copy of the agreement form.
Dates:
13 May 1949
Inaugural lecture, 1925
File
Identifier: Coll-1310/3/1/2/2
Scope and Contents
Thomson discusses how intelligence is distributed between the various social or occupational levels of society. He explains the normal distribution of intelligence within the population, drawing parallels with the distribution of height. Thomson refers to inquiries carried out by him in Northumberland in 1922, and inquiries carried out in the Isle of Wight in 1924, which demonstrated that individual differences outweigh social differences, and supported the notion that heredity...
Dates:
1925
Papers of Godfrey H. Thomson
Fonds
Identifier: Coll-1310
Scope and Contents
Biographical and personal papers, c mid 19th century-1972;
Publications authored and co-authored by Thomson, 1904-1954;
Unpublished materials by Thomson, 1897-1954;
Publications collected by Thomson regarding education, intelligence, psychology, and statistics, 1879-1971
Unpublished material collected by Thomson and authored by others, c mid 20th...
Dates:
c1890s-1978
Papers of Professor Walter Ledermann
Fonds — Box CLX-A-667
Identifier: Coll-1064
Scope and Contents
The collection largely consists of letters from Godfrey Thomson to Ledermann. Many are highly mathematical in content, containing formulae and mathematical notation, though they also regard social events and contain enquiries from Thomson with regards to the safety of Ledermann's family throughout the war.
Dates:
1937-1954
The Extent and Significance of Individual Differences, c1930s-1940s
File
Identifier: Coll-1310/3/1/2/12
Scope and Contents
Thomson begins by introducing the concept of individual differences in general terms, before moving on to his own topic of intelligence, and discussing the extent of individual intelligence differences. He illustrates the wideness of the intellectual range within the population by reproducing Cyril Burt's table, Distribution of Intelligence among Children and Adults, which contains suggested IQ scores for different levels of schooling and occupational complexity in...
Dates:
c1930s-1940s
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- Intelligence tests 3
- Education 2
- Education research 2
- Mathematics 2
- Psychology 2
- Statistics 2
- Child psychology 1
- Durham England 1
- Eugenics 1
- Factor analysis 1
- Heredity 1
- Heredity, Human 1
- Individual differences 1
- Nature and Nurture 1
- Newcastle Upon Tyne (England) 1
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