PSYC 3250 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Scientific Method, Managed Care, Computerized Adaptive Testing

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 3250
• Professor: Jeffrey Spence

Document Summary

Most psychologists working with patients or clients are trained in a clinical, counselling, or school psychological program. Practice-oriented programs: graduates are trained to provide psychological health care serves doctoral-level clinical, counselling, or school psychology programs, graduates typically qualify for equivalent professional benefits professional licensing, independent practice, eligibility for insurance reimbursement. Work with clients with more severe forms of psychopathology: counselling psychology programs. Work with clients with less severe problems: apa stopped distinguishing between clinical and counselling psychology internships, notable differences. Brief history of testing earliest testing: circa 2200 bc: chinese tested public officials to ensure competence. Han dynasty written exams for the first time and covered 5 areas: agriculture, civil law, geography, military affairs, and revenue. England and us developed classification systems to help classify individuals with mental retardation and other mental problems early experimental psychologists made significant contributions to the development of cognitive ability testing.