Important people Flashcards
(41 cards)
Gideon
in the Bible, he chose soldiers who showed being altert and skill (not kneeling and drinking water correctly)
Pythagoras school
had a procedure for selecting students
Aristotle
Physiognomy -> psychological characteristics evaluated through face features
Hippocrates
4 temperament types: sanguine, choleric, melancholic, and phlegmatic
Joan Lluis Vives
education adapted to learners
Juan Huarte de San Juan
intelligence, and how we should assess each person’s level to match it to the skills, occupations and types of eductation they should have.
Weber and Fechner
subjective experiences (self used to asssess psychologically)
Burdach
mobility -> brain white matter / higher intellectual processes -> grey brain matter
Macdax and Broca
discrovered brain area associated to language
Ferrier
discovered psychomotor centers
Pinel
highlighted value of medical records
Esquirol
highlighted value of family records
Kraepelin
1st classification of mental disorders
Gall
phrenology
Quetelet
Mathematics. Statistics to social sciences and developed measure of central tendency
Darwin
evolitionary theory: variability, adaptability, intelligence (humans) and heredity
Wundt
1st experimental psychologist. 1st psychological laboratory, denies importance of individual differences and did not authorize use of questionnaires (limitation)
Galton
Founder. Differential psychology, Eugenic movement, intelligence as innate, importance of data collection, quantitative measurement, developed statistics, inheritance
Cattell
Founder.mental test, higher mental processes asessed with sensory discrimination, 1st battery of psychological assessment tests. Rejected introspection, recognition of psychology as a science
Binet
1st metric scale of intelligence, interest in individual differences, rejected the idea of sensory processes, study of higher mental functions through task performance. Scale to separate children which could continue or not education and term mental age
Stern
IQ fromula
Guslain
basis of structured interviews
Snell
way of detecting disease symtoms with objective evidence
Grashey
studied aphasia and agnosia