Description |
xi, 205 pages ; 25 cm |
Note |
Originated at a symposium at the 150th National Meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, held in New York on May 29, 1984. |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographies and index. |
Contents |
Introduction : psychological testing and historical scholarship : questions, contrasts, and context ; James McKeen Cattell and mental anthropometry : nineteenth-century science and reform and the origins of psychological testing / Michael M. Sokal -- The debate over diagnosis : Henry Herbert Goddard and the medical acceptance of intelligence testing / Leila Zenderland -- Robert M. Yerkes and the mental testing movement / James Reed -- Lewis M. Terman and mental testing : in search of the democratic ideal / Henry L. Minton -- Was early mental testing : racist inspired, objective science, a technology for democracy, the origin of the multiple-choice exams, none of the above? / Franz Samuelson -- The manager, the medic, and the mediator : the clash of professional psychological styles and the wartime origins of group mental testing / Richard T. von Mayrhauser -- Applied science and public policy : the Ohio Bureau of Juvenile Research and the problem of juvenile delinquency, 1913-1930 / Hamilton Cravens. |
Subject |
Psychological tests -- United States -- History -- Congresses.
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Intelligence tests -- United States -- History -- Congresses.
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Intelligence Tests -- history -- United States -- Congresses.
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Psychological Tests -- history -- United States -- Congresses.
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Indexed Term |
United States Psychological testing, history |
Added Author |
American Association for the Advancement of Science. National Meeting (1984 : New York, N.Y.)
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Sokal, Michael M. (Michael Mark), 1945-
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ISBN |
0813511933: $28.00 |
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9780813511931 |
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