PSYC 4176 Exam 1 Matson Questions
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Simon - ✔✔French psychologist and psychometrician. He co-created the Binet-Simon
Intelligence Scale tests was famous for work on abnormal children
Weschler - ✔✔American psychologist that developed the WAIS and WISC intelligence
scales; emphasized that not just intellectual ability is involved in intelligent behavior.
Today the WAIS is the most commonly administered psychological test
Kraeplin - ✔✔a German psychiatrist; identifies him as the founder of modern scientific
psychiatry, as well as of psychopharmacology and psychiatric genetics; believed the
chief origin of psychiatric disease to be biological and genetic malfunction
Mary Cover Jones - ✔✔Pioneer of behavior therapy; Worked with Watson; developed
desensitization for phobias; removal a fear of rabbits through direct classical
conditioning, conducted on a three-year-old named Peter.
Stanford- Binet - ✔✔It is a cognitive ability and intelligence test that is used to diagnose
developmental or intellectual deficiencies in young children. The test measures five
weighted factors and consists of both verbal and nonverbal subtests. The five factors:
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, knowledge, quantitative reasoning, visual-spatial processing, working memory, and
fluid reasoning. It initiated the modern field of intelligence testing and was one of the
first examples of an adaptive test.
Weschler Test - ✔✔a test designed to measure intelligence in adults and older
adolescents. gathered tasks created for nonclinical purposes for administration as a
"clinical test battery", used the point scale concept instead of the age scale, and included
a non-verbal performance scale.
Kaufman Assessmemt Battery - ✔✔a clinical instrument (psychological diagnostic test)
for assessing cognitive development. Its construction incorporates several recent
developments in both psychological theory and statistical methodology. gives special
attention to certain emerging testing needs, such as use with handicapped groups,
application to problems of learning disabilities, and appropriateness for cultural and
linguistic minorities. The authors rightly caution, however, that success in meeting
these special needs must be judged through practical use over time.
Projective Tests - ✔✔is a personality test designed to let a person respond to ambiguous
stimuli, presumably revealing hidden emotions and internal conflicts projected by the
person into the test.
Psychopharmacology - ✔✔the scientific study of the effects drugs have on mood,
sensation, thinking, and behavior.
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Simon - ✔✔French psychologist and psychometrician. He co-created the Binet-Simon
Intelligence Scale tests was famous for work on abnormal children
Weschler - ✔✔American psychologist that developed the WAIS and WISC intelligence
scales; emphasized that not just intellectual ability is involved in intelligent behavior.
Today the WAIS is the most commonly administered psychological test
Kraeplin - ✔✔a German psychiatrist; identifies him as the founder of modern scientific
psychiatry, as well as of psychopharmacology and psychiatric genetics; believed the
chief origin of psychiatric disease to be biological and genetic malfunction
Mary Cover Jones - ✔✔Pioneer of behavior therapy; Worked with Watson; developed
desensitization for phobias; removal a fear of rabbits through direct classical
conditioning, conducted on a three-year-old named Peter.
Stanford- Binet - ✔✔It is a cognitive ability and intelligence test that is used to diagnose
developmental or intellectual deficiencies in young children. The test measures five
weighted factors and consists of both verbal and nonverbal subtests. The five factors:
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, knowledge, quantitative reasoning, visual-spatial processing, working memory, and
fluid reasoning. It initiated the modern field of intelligence testing and was one of the
first examples of an adaptive test.
Weschler Test - ✔✔a test designed to measure intelligence in adults and older
adolescents. gathered tasks created for nonclinical purposes for administration as a
"clinical test battery", used the point scale concept instead of the age scale, and included
a non-verbal performance scale.
Kaufman Assessmemt Battery - ✔✔a clinical instrument (psychological diagnostic test)
for assessing cognitive development. Its construction incorporates several recent
developments in both psychological theory and statistical methodology. gives special
attention to certain emerging testing needs, such as use with handicapped groups,
application to problems of learning disabilities, and appropriateness for cultural and
linguistic minorities. The authors rightly caution, however, that success in meeting
these special needs must be judged through practical use over time.
Projective Tests - ✔✔is a personality test designed to let a person respond to ambiguous
stimuli, presumably revealing hidden emotions and internal conflicts projected by the
person into the test.
Psychopharmacology - ✔✔the scientific study of the effects drugs have on mood,
sensation, thinking, and behavior.
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