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A note on a Norwegian precursor of Charles Spearman
Author(s) -
Teigen Karl Halvor
Publication year - 1986
Publication title -
journal of the history of the behavioral sciences
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.216
H-Index - 26
eISSN - 1520-6696
pISSN - 0022-5061
DOI - 10.1002/1520-6696(198601)22:1<61::aid-jhbs2300220107>3.0.co;2-2
Subject(s) - norwegian , intellect , handwriting , psychology , doctrine , developmental psychology , mathematics education , epistemology , philosophy , theology , linguistics
Thomas Parr (1862‐1935), a Norwegian psychologist and high‐school teacher, attempted to prove a version of the “unity of the intellect” doctrine. In two papers, published in 1897 and 1898, Parr reported school grades for 739 eleven‐to‐fifteen‐year‐old schoolchildren, and was able to demonstrate a correspondence between “manual” (sensorimotor) skills like handwriting and achievement in more “intellectual” school subjects.