L7 Testing and Early Clinical Psychology: Rise of Behaviourism Flashcards
What did Paul Broca’s conclude with his work in intelligence and brain size?
Brain localisation and intelligence testing
Brain size: believed that intelligence was linked to brain size: men more intelligent than women.
Archeology: found that primitive brains were not as differentiated, difference becoming more stark
Conclusions: mature adults more intelligent than elderly, modern brains more intelligent than primitive, and men more intelligent that women. But only used brain size as proxy.
What was Galton’s role in anthropometrics?
Psychometrics: Galton set up an Anthropometric Laboratory at the International Health Exhibition in London in 1885. People payed him to be tested on instruments he invented, thus founding psychometrics.
What were among James Mckeen Cattell’s accomplishments?
Wundt: first American to do Ph.D with Wundt
Worked with Galton, brings correlation and regression to the mean back to US
Founded Journals: Science, Popular Science Monthly, Scientific Monthly, Psychological Review, American Men of Science
Helped to establish psychology as a legitimate science
Who was the main proponent of structuralism, and how did structuralism develop?
Edward Titchener
“Psychologic Table” Ideas for structuralism were influenced by his time spent working with Wundt. Wanted to classify structures of the mind into their component parts, in the same way chemists’ devised the periodic table.
Legacy of Edward Titchener
The Manuals: writes laboratory manuals for psychology with lab exercises for students
Ph.Ds: highest number of Ph.Ds in the US, his first graduate student was first woman to be granted a Ph.D (Margaret Floy Washburn)
Instruments and Testing:
Moss ergograph: endurance grip - determination
Wet spirometer: measure of intelligence
Voltmeter: elevation of heels and presence or absence of tremors - measure of spunk
Wissler showed all these predicted nothing
Alfred Binet’s training and testing
Worked with Charcot and Witt
developed the binet-simon test to detect learning difficulties in children.
