CHAPTER 2 Flashcards
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there is “little” in the history of clinical psychology to separate it from the history of abnormal psychology.
1890
Zilboorg and Henry termed Clinical Psychology as “medical psychology”.
1941
Reisman’s useful search for the origins of clinical psychology in the 19th century reform movements that eventually led to better treatment of mentally ill patients.
1976
- one of the major figures in this movement
- he managed to get himself appointed as head of the asylum at Bicêtre
- has a milestone contribution in the development of psychiatry, mental health, and clinical psychology
Philippe Pinel
devoting himself to the establishment of a “model hospital” for humane treatment
William Tuke
- was laboring long and successfully to
develop a retreat in Hartford for the mentally ill. - emphasized the role of civilized care, respect, and morality.
Eli Todd
she campaigned for better facilities for the mentally ill.
Dorothea Dix
- a hospital for the “insane” was built in New Jersey.
- “Knowledge through experimentation” began to prevail which later on gave rise to science, literature, government, and reform
1848
1850 — 1899
The Beginnings
established an anthropometric laboratory
Francis Galton
- believed that the study of reaction time differences was a way of approaching the study of intelligence.
- he also coined the term “mental tests” to describe his measures
James McKeen Cattell
- began the current model of treatment in clinical psychology through opening the 1st psychological clinic (1896)
- 1st psychological journal “The Psychological Clinic”
Lightner Witmer (1896)
he divided mental illness into types determined by exogenous factors (curable) and endogenous factors.
Emil Kraepelin (1913)
1900 — 1919
Modern Era of Diagnosis and Assessment
offered the concept of general intelligence that he termed “g”.
Charles Spearman (1904)
began to use word-association methods to uncover unconscious material in patients.
Carl Jung (1905)
The creation of the Binet-Simon scale (Alfred Binet & Theodore Simon).
1908
Kent-Rosanoff Free Association Test was created.
1910
- creation of Army Alpha test and Army
Beta test. - Woodworth’s Psychoneurotic Inventory
or The Woodworth Personal Data Sheet was published.
1917
1920 — 1939
Between The Wars (Diagnosis and Assessment)
major news during ‘Between The Wars’
Projective Testing
a water-shed event for projecting testing happened
1921
publication of Psychodiagnostik (Psychodiagnostic)
- described his use of inkblots to diagnose psychiatric patients
- when people respond to an ambiguous test stimulus, it will let them reveal something of their responses to real-life experiences.
Hermann Rorschach
Woodworth’s Personal Data Sheet by the Pressey X-0 Test
1921