Important people Flashcards
Gideon
in the Bible, he chose soldiers who showed being altert and skill (not kneeling and drinking water correctly)
Pythagoras school
had a procedure for selecting students
Aristotle
Physiognomy -> psychological characteristics evaluated through face features
Hippocrates
4 temperament types: sanguine, choleric, melancholic, and phlegmatic
Joan Lluis Vives
education adapted to learners
Juan Huarte de San Juan
intelligence, and how we should assess each person’s level to match it to the skills, occupations and types of eductation they should have.
Weber and Fechner
subjective experiences (self used to asssess psychologically)
Burdach
mobility -> brain white matter / higher intellectual processes -> grey brain matter
Macdax and Broca
discrovered brain area associated to language
Ferrier
discovered psychomotor centers
Pinel
highlighted value of medical records
Esquirol
highlighted value of family records
Kraepelin
1st classification of mental disorders
Gall
phrenology
Quetelet
Mathematics. Statistics to social sciences and developed measure of central tendency
Darwin
evolitionary theory: variability, adaptability, intelligence (humans) and heredity