Early Life
Robert Jeffrey Sternberg was born on December 9, 1949, in New Jersey. Sternberg suffered from test anxiety since childhood. As a result, he became an inadequate test taker. This upset him and he reasoned that a test was not an adequate measurement of his true knowledge and academic abilities. When he later retook a test in a room that consisted of younger students, he felt more comfortable and his scores were increased dramatically. The following year, he created the Sternberg Test of Mental Agility (STOMA), his first intelligence test. This problem of test taking is what sparked Sternberg’s interest in Psychology.
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