London School of Differential Psychology
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The London School is a general view of psychology as a natural science, essentially a branch of biology. Its central concern in variability in human behavior: interspecies, intraspecies and genetic. It is highly quantitative and emphasizes objective measurement, a taxonomy of behavior, and operational definition of latent constructs. Moreover, it is analytical and experimental. Most importantly, however, it is reductionist in that it aims theoretically to explain complex phenomena in terms of simpler, more elemental processes. As such, it does not seek any explanatory principle that does not consist of strictly physical processes. A more elaborate definition is given in Jensen (1998)
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[edit] Membership
The founding of the School is often accredited to Victorian polymath Francis Galton. Additional members are:
- Charles Spearman, creator of the Spearman-Brown prediction formula
- Cyril Burt
- Hans Eysenck
- Paul Kline
- Philip E. Vernon
- Arthur Jensen
- Richard Lynn
- J. Philippe Rushton
- Ian Deary
- Chris Brand
- Thomas Bouchard
- Philip A. Vernon
- Raymond Cattell
- Chris Brand
[edit] Sociology of g
Two people are or particular note concerning the sociology of g (general intelligence)
[edit] References
Jensen, A. R. (1998). Jensen on "Jensenism." Intelligence, 26, 181-208.
[edit] External links
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