Midterm Flashcards
refers to a set of strategies for selecting, implementing, and evaluating intervention programs based on the lawful principals of behavior
Behavior Analysis
All children were required to attend school for the first time (1800s)
Compulsory Education
Why mandate education
industrialization, growing populations, poor social conditions, changing view of the child
What is the Nativist view of intelligence?
you are what you are and schools can’t do anything about it
What were IQ testers views on fatalism?
why study or why teach folks if they can’t learn
Foundations of School Psychological Service Delivery
- diversity in development and learning
- research and program evaluation
- legal, ethical, and professional practice
Who focused on evolution and brain-behavior relationships?
Darwin & Gall
Who had the 1st psych lab?
“Father of Psychology”
Will Wundt
Who connected environment and behavior?
“Father of Psychiatry”
Freud
Who founded the first school psych clinic at U of Pennsylvania?
“Father of School Psychology”
Lightner Witmer
- addressed the problems of children in educational settings
- focused on the individual (idiographic)
Binet-Simon Scale
- Classifying children based on intelligence IQ
- Focus was on identifying the “normal” child (nomethetic)
- Nativist
Who was the first to hold title School Psychologist?
Arnold Gesell
Where was the first SP training program?
NYU
What were psychological and educational changes that created the need for SP?
- compulsory education
- social, cultural, political, and economic conditions
What was the mental hygiene movement?
to deal with juvenile delinquency
Where was the Scientist-Practitioner Model formed?
Boulder Conference (1949)
- model for credentialing and training psychs
- emphasized practice rather than pure basic science
Where was the first comprehensive picture of the field of School Psychology formed?
Thayer Conference (1954) -shaped training, credentialing, and practice of SP
What came out of the Spring Hill (1982) Conference?
- schools are major impetus of social change
- growth of government
- pluralism and racial discrimination
- economic considerations
- legislation/litigation
Define Correlational vs Experimental
Correlational
-assess individual differences and fit persons to existing programs
-refer-test-place
Experimental
-focus on competence enhancement
-improve performance by finding best intervention
Any characteristic that impacts response to treatment
Aptitude