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Anastasi
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studied issues related to test construction, test misuse, misinterpretation and cultural bias. Argued against the strictly hereditarian position; emphasized the role of experiential, environmental and cultural influences on intelligence test scores
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Bergan
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behavioral consultation, problem solving
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Binet
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first modern or useable intelligence test. Purpose was to identify students who needed special help in coping with the curriculum
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Caplan
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mental health consultation. Focus on training teachers, who will work with kids. Primary goal is helping consultee gain insight into personal feelings and behaviors that may be contributing to presenting problem
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Cattell
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first professor of psychology in US – at UPenn. Helped establish psychology as a “real” science
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Dweck
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attributing success or failure to internal or external forces
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Freud
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one of first to realize importance of critical periods and early experiences
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Galton
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created statistical concept of correlation and promoted regression toward the mean. Half-cousin of Charles Darwin. First to apply statistical methods to study human differences and inheritance of intelligence. Founded psychometrics and differential psyc
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Gesell
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worked with infants and young children, developed assessment tools. Initially interested in MR, then advocated studying normal development to understand abnormal
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Hall
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founded APA. Child development and evolutionary theory. Pioneered American psychology. Besides Witmer, instrumental in founding educational psychology
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Jenson
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presented evidence that racial differences in intelligence test scores may have a genetic origin. Said IQ tests are not biased, differences in IQ scores not due to unfairness of tests. Accepts g theory, Jensen had level one (memory functions, associative learning) and level two (abstract reasoning, conceptual thought) abilities
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McCarthy
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Ph.D. from Minnesota in 1928, first in ICD. Researched normal language development. McCarthy scales measure preschoolers’ abilities
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Simon
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developed intelligence scale with Binet. Believed its success prevented psychologists from achieving Binet’s goal of understanding humans. French psychologist and psychometrician. Worked in many hospitals with “abnormal” children
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Spearman
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general intellectual ability, g, and some specific factors, s. s factors vary in strength from one task to another, while g is always available to individual. Tasks requiring g are much more predictable
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Stern
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developed term IQ. Psychologist in personality and intelligence
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Terman
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published the Stanford-Binet. Promoted as helpful tool for working with developmentally disabled kids, not IQ test. Pioneer in cognitive psychology at Stanford
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Titchener
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student of Wundt’s, translated term empathy to English. Founded first psychology laboratory in US at Cornell
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Thurstone
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responsible for standardized mean and standard deviation of IQ scores. Made contributions to factor analysis, created law of comparative judgment. Opposed notion of general intelligence and had seven primary mental abilities in his model
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Vernon
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studied race and intelligence, said individual differences in intelligence 60% attributable to genetic factors
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Wechsler
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developed the WAIS in 1939, was then Wechsler-Bellevue. Wanted to find out more info about his patients and was dissatisfied with Binet. Rejected idea of global intelligence, focused on verbal and performance
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Terman
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published the Stanford-Binet. Promoted as helpful tool for working with developmentally disabled kids, not IQ test. Pioneer in cognitive psychology at Stanford
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Titchener
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student of Wundt’s, translated term empathy to English. Founded first psychology laboratory in US at Cornell
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Thurstone
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responsible for standardized mean and standard deviation of IQ scores. Made contributions to factor analysis, created law of comparative judgment. Opposed notion of general intelligence and had seven primary mental abilities in his model
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Vernon
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studied race and intelligence, said individual differences in intelligence 60% attributable to genetic factors
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Wechsler
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developed the WAIS in 1939, was then Wechsler-Bellevue. Wanted to find out more info about his patients and was dissatisfied with Binet. Rejected idea of global intelligence, focused on verbal and performance
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Witmer
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founding father of school psychology. Inventor of term clinical psychology. Took over Cattell’s lab at UPenn
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Wundt
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German psychologist, thought of as one of the founders of experimental and cognitive psychology, less credited for helping to found social psychology. Stressed that observations should be made by trained observers under specific conditions
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