exam 2 H&S ch8

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By 1913

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the US was predominant in psychology

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James McKeen Cattell

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Worked for Wundt and was interested in eugenics

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Cattell founded and introduced…

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Found the American Association of University Professors and introduced term mental tests (sensorimotor measures)

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Alfred Binet creates…

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the first psychological tests of mental ability

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Binet believed in…

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assessing cognitive functions - memory, attention, comprehension, imagination

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Lewis Terman…

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created the Stanford-Binet Test and adopted the concept of the intelligence quotient (IQ)

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Arthur Otis

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developed the MC Qs

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Army Alpha Test

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verbal and numerical ability

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Army Beta Test

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Mazes and digit-symbol substitution

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Psychological Testing…

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won overwhelming public acceptance

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People are…

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‘patients’ rather than subjects

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Florence Goodenough

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developed the draw-a-man test

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Psyche Cattell

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Extended the age range of Stanford-Binet downward and the first single woman allowed to adopt a child in the US

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Anne Anastasi

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PhD from Colombia at age 21 and was the president of APA

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Light Witmer

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Started what he called clinical psychology and opened the world’s first psychology clinic

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The growth of clinical psychology…

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was slow in the US but things start to take off when the US entered WWII in 1941

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Walter Dill Scott

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was the first person to apply psychology to personal selection, management, and advertising

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Employee selection

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intelligence is judgment, quickness, and accuracy - compare applicant test scores to good employees

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Weapon systems engineers…

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started to work with psychologists

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the primary focus on industrial psychologists…

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was the selection and placement of job applicants

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western electric company

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found that social and psychological aspects are more important

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Hugo Munsterberg

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wrote hundreds of magazine articles and over 20 books on topics of clinical, industrial, and forensic psychology

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Munsterberg…

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defended Germany during WWI and people wanted him fired

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Munsterberg’s Interests

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• Forensic psych and eye witness testimony
• Treated clients for free in his lab
• developed mental test and job simulation - match the mental and emotional abilities of workers to their jobs

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FDA coca cola raid

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drug bust for a substance that was hazardous and habit-forming (caffeine)

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Wundt's psych...

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was not suited for American Zeitgeist

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Structuralism evolved...

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into functionalism

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James Cattell...

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- promoted a practical, test-oriented approach to the study of mental processes - was concerned with human abilities rather than the content of consciousness

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J Cattell...

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became on of the first American Psychologists to stress quantification, ranking, and ratings

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mental age

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the age at which children of average ability can perform certain tasks

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IQ testing showed...

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Blacks had a lower IQ than whites

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evidence showed that IQ differences

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are environmental, not biological

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Witmer was a...

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pioneer of functional psychology

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Cases

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hyperactivity, learning disabilities, and poor speech, and motor development

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psychical evaluation

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emotional and cognitive functioning could be affected by physical problems

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Scott argued

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that because consumers often do not act rationally, they can be easily infuenced

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WWI

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monumental increase in the scope, popularity and growth of industrial-organizational psychology - demonstrated psych's worth

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WWII

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Brought psychologists into war work - increase in engineering psychology

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workers were more motivated...

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to know that management cared about them and their boss was interested in them as individuals

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Munsterberg believed...

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mental illness was really a behavioral maladjustment problem

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industrial psychology

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Contributed to: vocational guidance, advertising, personnel management, mental testing, employee motivation, and the effects of fatigue and monotony on job performance

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people believed...

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psychologists could fix and sell anything