Lecture 10 - The New Profession Social Action and Change

Question 1

The American Psychological Association

Answer 1

• First meeting: 1892 at UPenn
• Attendees included Hall, Münsterberg, Cattell,
  Witmer, Calkins
• Annual dues: $3; First meeting: $12.70
• Change in the APA’s mandate 1895/1945
• In 2024, the APA had 54 divisions and 146,000
  members
• In 2018, 74% of Psychology PhDs went to women
• In 2018, 40% of first-year graduate students in
  psychology were racial or ethnic minorities (Henley, 2024)

Question 2

World War I (1914-1918) & World War II (1939-1945)

Answer 2

Influence of the two World Wars in Psychology
- soilders reponse to combat

• 1916, GSH argues to the APA that psychology could be
  used to predict soldier’s response to combat

(huge explosion of practicong psychologist
- delayed effect of world war I)

• Robert Yerkes leads the army in evaluating soldiers using
  the Army Alpha and Army Beta intelligence tests
• 1919: 300 psychologists; 1939: 3000+ (Bindas, 2022)
• WWII created great demand for mental health services;
  80% of returning veterans requested counselling (Rogers, 1944)
• Training of clinical psychologists is formalized
• Rise of human factors psychology

(How displays should look, things like this)

(Many ppl come back form WWII
with what we call now PTSD
- a lot of this help comes from psychtirts
but there were too much demand for
the supply and the training psychoatrists get
may not be the most helpful for these issues)

Question 3

What happened with psych in the 20s?

Answer 3

In the 1920s, popular culture
embraced psychology

Here popular culture really embrases psychology
- we can see this in advertising
- psychologists are seen as experts and new categoruy of person