Intelligence Testing Article Analysis
PSY 450
May 21, 2012
Joseph Gaines

Intelligence Testing Article Analysis
In earlier years many of the intelligence test that had been developed were culturally biased. The early intelligence test favored people that were from urban areas and not people from rural areas. The early intelligence test also favored people who were of the middle class status and not those of the lower class status. The earlier intelligence test also favored people who were white rather than people who were black. In this paper the author will review several different articles that are related to intelligence testing.
The definition of intelligence may vary among the different cultures (Rogoff, 1990). An example of the differences among cultures and the way they view intelligence is European Americans think of intelligence in technical skills terms whereas people that are from Kenya consider intelligence to be someone who is an active participant in family and social life. Another example of the way culture views intelligence is people from Uganda view someone as being intelligent if they know the right thing to do and then they follow through with the right actions. Another example is the of the variations on how intelligence is viewed from culture to culture is the latmu people that are from Papua New Guinea, they believe people who have the ability to remember 10, 000 to 20,000 clans as intelligent. The people of the Carolina Island people believe that people who can use the stars to navigate are intelligent.
Intelligence testing can be vary cultural bias at times. A great example of how intelligence testing can be cultural bias is the example of Gregory Ochoa. While Gregory Ochoa was in high school him and his fellow classmates were all given an IQ test. Gregory did not speak or understand very much English and at home he spoke in