PSYC 215 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Folk Psychology, Factor Analysis, Wilhelm Wundt

• School: McGill University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 215
• Professor: John Lydon

Document Summary

France"s primary psychological strength lay in the field of psychopathology. The chief neurologist at the salp tri re hospital in paris, jean-martin charcot (1825 1893), had been using the recently revivied and renamed (see above) practice of hypnoisis to experimentally produce hysterical symptoms in some of his patients. Two of his students, alfred binet (1857 : and pierre janet (1859 1947), adopted and expanded this practice in their own work. in. 1889, binet and his colleague henri beaunis (1830 1921) co-founded, at the sorbonne, the first experimental psychology laboratory in france. Just five years later, in 1894, beaunis, binet, and a third colleague, victor henri (1872 1940), co-founded the first french journal dedicated to experimental psychology, l"ann e psychologique. In response, with his collaborator th odore simon (1873 1961), he developed the binet-simon intelligence test, first published in 1905 (revised in 1908 and 1911).