PSYC 406 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: James Mckeen Cattell, Thematic Apperception Test, Robert Yerkes
29 Nov 2017
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Most of the major developments in testing have occurred over the last century, many of them in the. Galton"s work was extended by the u. s. psychologist james mckeen cattell, who coined the term mental test. As such, cattell perpetuated and stimulated the forces that ultimately led to the development of modern tests. psychological threshold, the minimum stimulus necessary to activate a sensory system. Wilhelm wundt is credited with founding the science of psychology. Thus, psychological testing developed from at least two lines of inquiry: one based on the work of. Darwin, galton, and cattell on the measurement of individual differences, and the other (more theoretically relevant and probably stronger) based on the work of the german psychophysicists. One of the earliest tests resembling current procedures, the seguin form board test, was developed in an effort to educate and evaluate the mentally disabled. Similarly, kraepelin devised a series of examinations for evaluating emotionally impaired people.
