Psyc 375 Final Exam Review 3 Terms
James McKeen Cattell - ANS-- Started the journal Science
- First psychologist to be elected to the National Academy of Science
- One of the founding members of the APA
Alfred Binet - ANS-- Interested in individual differences
- Develops mental age
- Mental orthopedics (special aid programs to facilitate the growth and development of
people's intelligence)
William Stern - ANS-- Coined the term IQ (mental age/chronological age)
Lewis Termin - ANS-- Adapted the Stanford-Binet scale for the US context
- Concerned with standardizing the IQ test
- Believed the intelligence is inherited
- Normal child's IQ = 100
Leta Stetter Hollingworth - ANS--Interested in individual differences, in particular gifted
and retarded children
- Influenced Thorndike to move away from inherited intelligence
- Studied women and eminence and women's performance during the menstrual cycle
- Challenged the concept that women were inherently less intelligent than men
Robert Yerkes - ANS-- US Army testing
- Age should not be a determining factor in terms of intelligence
Alpha & Beta Tests (Yerkes) - ANS-- Alpha: literate
ex: Washington is to Adams, as first is to __________
- Beta: Illiterate
ex: Pictures with a missing piece, like a profile of a person with no nose
Florence L. Goodenough - ANS-- Draw-a-man test
- Assumes to assess intelligence without relying on verbal ability
- Consists of: draw-a-man, draw-a-woman, or draw yourself
Maud A. Merrill James - ANS-- Collaborated with Terman on the revision of the
Stanford-Binet Intelligence test
, - Concerned with children who were developmentally delayed
Thelma Gwinn Thurstone - ANS-- Co-developed the Primary Mental Abilities test battery
Psyche Cattell - ANS-- Has dyslexia
- Develops the Cattell Infant Intelligence scale
Ane Anastasi - ANS-- President of APA
- Enters university at 15, PhD at 21
- Wrote more than 150 articles and books
Thelma Hunt - ANS-- A study of social intelligence of Ten Thousand Persons in Industry
and College Life
- Developer of first Medical College Admissions Test for the Association of American
Medical Colleges
- Co-founder and director of the Center for Psychological Services
Frederick W. Taylor - ANS-- Concerned with the efficiency of human movement
- Personal ambition = most powerful incentive
- Time and motions study
Scientific Management (Taylor) - ANS-1. Work plan given minimum 24 hours prior
2. Complete written instructions of plan
3. The means to do the work had to be ready
Elton Mayo - ANS-- If you pay attention to workers, you will have an impact (attentive
listening)
- Hawthorn effect (any change in work condition increases output)
Comparative Psychology - ANS-- Understanding the evolution of behaviour through the
comparison of different species
- Darwinism as a central influence
- Part of functionalism
Georges John Romanes - ANS-- To study the mind: study the activities of living
organisms & organism must suggest to have consciousness AND choice
- Assumes animal intelligence and mental evolution in animals
- No real qualitative difference between animals and humans.
Pavlov - ANS-- Unconditioned and conditioned stimuli and reflexes
James McKeen Cattell - ANS-- Started the journal Science
- First psychologist to be elected to the National Academy of Science
- One of the founding members of the APA
Alfred Binet - ANS-- Interested in individual differences
- Develops mental age
- Mental orthopedics (special aid programs to facilitate the growth and development of
people's intelligence)
William Stern - ANS-- Coined the term IQ (mental age/chronological age)
Lewis Termin - ANS-- Adapted the Stanford-Binet scale for the US context
- Concerned with standardizing the IQ test
- Believed the intelligence is inherited
- Normal child's IQ = 100
Leta Stetter Hollingworth - ANS--Interested in individual differences, in particular gifted
and retarded children
- Influenced Thorndike to move away from inherited intelligence
- Studied women and eminence and women's performance during the menstrual cycle
- Challenged the concept that women were inherently less intelligent than men
Robert Yerkes - ANS-- US Army testing
- Age should not be a determining factor in terms of intelligence
Alpha & Beta Tests (Yerkes) - ANS-- Alpha: literate
ex: Washington is to Adams, as first is to __________
- Beta: Illiterate
ex: Pictures with a missing piece, like a profile of a person with no nose
Florence L. Goodenough - ANS-- Draw-a-man test
- Assumes to assess intelligence without relying on verbal ability
- Consists of: draw-a-man, draw-a-woman, or draw yourself
Maud A. Merrill James - ANS-- Collaborated with Terman on the revision of the
Stanford-Binet Intelligence test
, - Concerned with children who were developmentally delayed
Thelma Gwinn Thurstone - ANS-- Co-developed the Primary Mental Abilities test battery
Psyche Cattell - ANS-- Has dyslexia
- Develops the Cattell Infant Intelligence scale
Ane Anastasi - ANS-- President of APA
- Enters university at 15, PhD at 21
- Wrote more than 150 articles and books
Thelma Hunt - ANS-- A study of social intelligence of Ten Thousand Persons in Industry
and College Life
- Developer of first Medical College Admissions Test for the Association of American
Medical Colleges
- Co-founder and director of the Center for Psychological Services
Frederick W. Taylor - ANS-- Concerned with the efficiency of human movement
- Personal ambition = most powerful incentive
- Time and motions study
Scientific Management (Taylor) - ANS-1. Work plan given minimum 24 hours prior
2. Complete written instructions of plan
3. The means to do the work had to be ready
Elton Mayo - ANS-- If you pay attention to workers, you will have an impact (attentive
listening)
- Hawthorn effect (any change in work condition increases output)
Comparative Psychology - ANS-- Understanding the evolution of behaviour through the
comparison of different species
- Darwinism as a central influence
- Part of functionalism
Georges John Romanes - ANS-- To study the mind: study the activities of living
organisms & organism must suggest to have consciousness AND choice
- Assumes animal intelligence and mental evolution in animals
- No real qualitative difference between animals and humans.
Pavlov - ANS-- Unconditioned and conditioned stimuli and reflexes
