Once Wundt’s students returned or come to America and started spreading his teachings, psychology changed to fit its environment from structuralism to functionalism. Americans wanted a more practical psychology. This is what caused the change in psychology from psychologist studding what the mind is to them studying what the mind does. Once this change to functionalism took place psychologist such as James, Angell and Dewey started developing their academic approach to psychological research in laboratories while others created approaches outside of the universities and the classrooms, these were applied psychologists. These applied psychologist were applying their psychology to everyday life, such as in schools, workplaces, advertising and
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Binet who failed in his attempts to create the tests. However, by using more complex measures, he was able to effectively measure human cognitive abilities. This is where the era of intelligence testing truly began. Binet began his research by using the techniques of Cattell on his two daughters. This testing just proved that his girls were able to complete the test the same as adults did. Then he turned to testing cognitive ability, using this method shows a difference in his daughters verses adults. In 1904, Binet was chosen to help understand why students are doing well in school. For this task he created a test of 30 questions in order of easiest to hardest to test for judgement, comprehension and reasoning. Three years after that test Binet added in the testing of mental age. In 1908, Binet’s test came to America via Henry Goddard. Goddard introduced the word moron meaning slow. In 1916 Lewis M Terrman created the IQ test, which is still the standard test today. For World War I group testing was used to assign jobs to troops. They also tested the immigrants IQ when they would come to America. This was the worse use to testing. This test decided the fate of a human, not always for the best. Most of the people taken these test have not had the chance to learn the language or even how to read and write their own …show more content…
He aided in moving the movement toward a practical, test-oriented approach to the study of mental processes. Cattell was focused on human abilities. This focus made him the first American psychologists to stress quantification, ranking, and ratings. Cattell, based off of his view on rank, he created the merit method. The first of this merit method was arranging 200 shades of gray by brightness. This method explained after the first test value judgements. From this research he developed the "Biographical Directory of American Men Of Science." During a 50 year stretch, Cattell was the editor of Science, this gave him the ability to promote psychology as a science. He also was a cofounder of the American Association of University Professors. With this his goal was to help professors to have more decision making
Binet who failed in his attempts to create the tests. However, by using more complex measures, he was able to effectively measure human cognitive abilities. This is where the era of intelligence testing truly began. Binet began his research by using the techniques of Cattell on his two daughters. This testing just proved that his girls were able to complete the test the same as adults did. Then he turned to testing cognitive ability, using this method shows a difference in his daughters verses adults. In 1904, Binet was chosen to help understand why students are doing well in school. For this task he created a test of 30 questions in order of easiest to hardest to test for judgement, comprehension and reasoning. Three years after that test Binet added in the testing of mental age. In 1908, Binet’s test came to America via Henry Goddard. Goddard introduced the word moron meaning slow. In 1916 Lewis M Terrman created the IQ test, which is still the standard test today. For World War I group testing was used to assign jobs to troops. They also tested the immigrants IQ when they would come to America. This was the worse use to testing. This test decided the fate of a human, not always for the best. Most of the people taken these test have not had the chance to learn the language or even how to read and write their own …show more content…
He aided in moving the movement toward a practical, test-oriented approach to the study of mental processes. Cattell was focused on human abilities. This focus made him the first American psychologists to stress quantification, ranking, and ratings. Cattell, based off of his view on rank, he created the merit method. The first of this merit method was arranging 200 shades of gray by brightness. This method explained after the first test value judgements. From this research he developed the "Biographical Directory of American Men Of Science." During a 50 year stretch, Cattell was the editor of Science, this gave him the ability to promote psychology as a science. He also was a cofounder of the American Association of University Professors. With this his goal was to help professors to have more decision making