Psychology 2310A/B Chapter Notes - Chapter 2: Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory, American Psychological Association, James Mckeen Cattell

• School: Western University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 2310A/B
• Professor: Laura Fazakas- De Hoog

Document Summary

Chapter 2 historical overview: diagnosis and assessment. Interest in sensory acuity, motor skills, and reaction time. Established an anthropometric lab in 1882: james mckeen cattell. Studied reaction time differences among people (mental tests) Reaction time = intelligence: lightner witmer. Began the current model of treatment by opening the rst psych. clinic in. 1896 and starting the 1st psych journal called the psych clinic". Ground breaking work identifying and treating children who experienced educational dif culties (due to cognitive de cits and/or psychological symptoms: main focus was on youth until around wwii, emil kraepelin. Divided mental illness into types determined by: exogenous factors (curable, endogenous factors (incurable) Descriptions of patients were heuristic and have served to stimulate an enormous amount of discussion about psychopathology. Modern era (1900-1919: rise of mental measurements diagnostic psych testing, alfred binet. Key to the study of individual differences was the notion of norms and deviations from those norms.