PS381 Chapter Notes - Chapter 2: Thematic Apperception Test, Hermann Rorschach, Carl Jung
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Diagnosis and assessment: beginnings: assessment of individual differences (galton, cattell) Galton pursued his interests in sensory acuity, motor skills, and reaction time and established an anthropometric laboratory in 1882. Cattell turned his attention to reaction time differences. Witmer became interested in variation in psychological skills among children. Mental testing was a term coined by catell to describe his measures of reaction time differences. Divided mental illness into those types determined by exogenous factors (curable) and those caused by endogenous factors (incurable) The first to articulate constellations of symptoms that we can group together with consistency as being related to bi-polar etc. He had the results of the assessments related to the norm of that age: personality testing, carl jung began using word association methods around 1905 to attempt to uncover unconscious material in patients. Is there a common g, or different subsets: doll"s vineland social maturity scale- 1936.
