PSYC 3125 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Lightner Witmer, James Mckeen Cattell, World'S Columbian Exposition
30 Mar 2016
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Assignment 2 due: february 22nd on moodle. Worked with galton and both were interested in intelligence and measuring it (using tests to assess intelligence) Galton believes intelligence is the strength and size of the nervous system (bigger brain, more intelligent) Galton sets up an anthropometric laboratory to measure intelligence (by head size and grip strength (dynamometric pressure)) There was development of the correlation coefficient, and cattell looks up their academic records and correlated his intelligence measure to their academics. World"s columbian exposition, chicago 1893: new psychologists interact with other educators, people are able to be measured for intelligence here. Was interested in working with children with educational differences (learning disabilities, behavioral problems) and wants to help. He was a teacher before he was a psychologist. He began to see children who were referred by teachers. He used the clinical method (which he named), one of his first patients was 14 yo charles gilman, and he couldn"t spell.
