Childhood Psychopathology
Chapter 2 notes
*Personality Psychology
*1st Force: Psychoanalysis from Europe- Freud and Jung
*2nd Force: Radical Behaviorists from USA- Skinner and Watson
*3rd Force: Humanistic from Europe and USA- Rogers and Maslow
*Intermediate forces:
*Neo-Freudians (Hornet, Fromm, Erikson)
*Trait Theorists (Cattell, Eysenck)
* Social Learning Theory/CBT (Beck, Michenbaum)
*Historical uses and abuses of intelligence testing: The Kallikak’s
*Definitions of intelligence
*Ability to learn
*Ability to adapt to new environments
*Abstract reasoning
*Ability to solve problems quickly and accurately
*Wechsler (1935)
*Intelligence is the ability to act purposefully, think rationally, and deal
effectively with the environment
*Henry H. Goddard (1866-1957)
*One of two men responsible for introducing the Binet-Simon scales to the U.S.
*Terman was the other
*Responsible for the creation of the Vineland Adaptive Behavior Scales
*Conducted the famous/infamous investigation of the heritability of intelligence
after being influenced by Gregor Mendel’s work
*1912: The Kallikak Family: A Study in the Heredity of Feeble-Mindedness
*Background: Gregor Mendel
*Mendel worked with honeybees and plants
*Performed numerous breeding experiments on the inheritance of certain
characteristics
*The results of his experiments established for the first time a valid set of
principles of genetic inheritance
*That is, offspring would be a blend of the parental characteristics
*Eugenics
*The study and practice of selective breeding applied to humans, with the aim
of improving the species
*Racism *Nazism
*How it all began…
*In 1897, a young girl, Deborah Kallikak, was admitted to the Vineland Institution
at the age of 8. Fourteen years later (age 22), she was tested with the Binet-
Simon scale and found to have a mental age of 9 years, leading Goddard to
classify her as a “moron”.
*Goddard’s Description of Deborah
Chapter 2 notes
*Personality Psychology
*1st Force: Psychoanalysis from Europe- Freud and Jung
*2nd Force: Radical Behaviorists from USA- Skinner and Watson
*3rd Force: Humanistic from Europe and USA- Rogers and Maslow
*Intermediate forces:
*Neo-Freudians (Hornet, Fromm, Erikson)
*Trait Theorists (Cattell, Eysenck)
* Social Learning Theory/CBT (Beck, Michenbaum)
*Historical uses and abuses of intelligence testing: The Kallikak’s
*Definitions of intelligence
*Ability to learn
*Ability to adapt to new environments
*Abstract reasoning
*Ability to solve problems quickly and accurately
*Wechsler (1935)
*Intelligence is the ability to act purposefully, think rationally, and deal
effectively with the environment
*Henry H. Goddard (1866-1957)
*One of two men responsible for introducing the Binet-Simon scales to the U.S.
*Terman was the other
*Responsible for the creation of the Vineland Adaptive Behavior Scales
*Conducted the famous/infamous investigation of the heritability of intelligence
after being influenced by Gregor Mendel’s work
*1912: The Kallikak Family: A Study in the Heredity of Feeble-Mindedness
*Background: Gregor Mendel
*Mendel worked with honeybees and plants
*Performed numerous breeding experiments on the inheritance of certain
characteristics
*The results of his experiments established for the first time a valid set of
principles of genetic inheritance
*That is, offspring would be a blend of the parental characteristics
*Eugenics
*The study and practice of selective breeding applied to humans, with the aim
of improving the species
*Racism *Nazism
*How it all began…
*In 1897, a young girl, Deborah Kallikak, was admitted to the Vineland Institution
at the age of 8. Fourteen years later (age 22), she was tested with the Binet-
Simon scale and found to have a mental age of 9 years, leading Goddard to
classify her as a “moron”.
*Goddard’s Description of Deborah
