Thomson, Godfrey Hilton, Sir, 1881-1955 (psychologist and Bell Professor of Education, University of Edinburgh)
Person
Found in 3 Collections and/or Records:
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Unpublished materials by Thomson, 1897-1954;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Unpublished material collected by Thomson and authored by others, c mid 20th...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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- Mathematics 2
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- Statistics 2
- Child psychology 1
- Durham England 1
- Eugenics 1
- Factor analysis 1
- Heredity 1
- Individual differences 1
- Newcastle Upon Tyne (England) 1
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