PSYCHOLOGYS HISTORY APPROACHES
PSYCHOLOGY AND ITS HISTORY
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Prominent psychologist that was concerned with the measurement of mental processes, rather than consciousness. He also used mental tests and created the Clearing House.
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He went out to tell others about Darwin’s work on evolution.
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Known for Industrial Organizational Psychology (IO).
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He extended the theory of evolution to machines.
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Detailed explanation-1: -James McKeen Cattell, (born May 25, 1860, Easton, Pa., U.S.-died Jan. 20, 1944, Lancaster, Pa.), U.S. psychologist who oriented U.S. psychology toward use of objective experimental methods, mental testing, and application of psychology to the fields of education, business, industry, and advertising.
Detailed explanation-2: -Cattell is credited with helping established psychology’s legitimacy as a science thanks to his focus on quantitative methods. He was also the founder and editor of a number of scientific journals including The Psychological Review.
Detailed explanation-3: -He was one of the first psychologists in America to stress the importance of quantification, ranking, and ratings. An outgrowth of this work, his experimentation with psychophysical testing, was influential in the popularization of mental testing within the psychological laboratory.
Detailed explanation-4: -Personality and Learning Theory, 2 vol. (1979–80), is considered Cattell’s most important work. In it he proposed a theory of human development that integrates the intellectual, temperamental, and dynamic aspects of personality in the context of environmental and cultural influences.