HISTORICAL, CULTURAL AND LEGAL/ETHICAL CONSIDERATIONS Flashcards
Where did tests and testing programs first came into being
CHINA
WHO? Anticipated psychology as a science and
psychological measurement as a specialty within that science
CHRISTIAN VON WOLFF
WHO? “Origin of Species”
chance variation in species would be selected or
rejected by nature according to adaptivity and survival value. “survival
of the fittest”
CHARLES DARWIN
Explore and quantify individual differences between people.
FRANCIS GALTON
Classify people “according to their natural gifts”
FRANCIS GALTON
Displayed the first anthropometric laboratory
FRANCIS GALTON
Developed the product moment correlation technique.
His work can be traced directly from Galton
KARL PEARSON
WHO?
First experimental psychology laboratory in University of Leipzig
WILHELM MAX WUNDT
Focuses more on relating to how people were SIMILAR, not different
from each other.
WILHELM MAX WUNDT
Individual differences in reaction time
Coined the term mental test
JAMES MCKEEN CATELL
Originating the concept of test reliability as well as building the
mathematical framework for the statistical technique of factor
analysis
CHARLES SPEARMAN
Frenchman who collaborated with Binet on papers suggesting how mental tests could be used to measure higher mental processes
VICTOR HENRI
Early experimenter of word association technique as a formal test
EMIL KRAEPELIN
“Little known founder of clinical psychology”
Founded the first psychological clinic in the U.S.
LIGHTNER WITMER
Daughter of James Cattell
Cattel Infant Intelligence Scale (CIIS) & Measurement of Intelligence in
Infants and Young Children
PSYCHE CATELL
