History of Psychological Testing

 Civil Service Examination

o 220 AD
o China, Han Dynasty
o Competitive and large-scale
o Horsemanship, music, archery, etc.

 Pseudoscientific Techniques
o 18th- 19th century
o Phrenology – measurement of skull
o Physiognomy – appearance = intelligence
o Graphology – writing = psychological state
 Brass instrument
o Wilhelm Wundt
o 1862
o Pendulum/thought meter
o “Speed of thought”
 Projective Technique
o Francis Galton
o 1879
o Word association test
o Emil Kraepelin, Carl Jung and Rosanott

o Francis Galton
o 1884
o Anthropometric and psychometric test
o Health Exhibit, London

o James McKeen Cattell

o 1890
o “mental testing”

o Herman Ebbinghaus
o 1897
o Sentence completion test

 Testing on Mentally Retarded and Advent of IQ

o Alfred Binet and Theodore Simon
o 1905
o Binet-Simon Scale
o Right classes
 o Henry H. Goddard
o 1908
o English version of Binet-Simon Scale
o Feeble-minded, moron, imbecile, idiot

o John Watson
o 1913
o Psychology as a Behaviorist Views It
o Behavioral observation as a testing/assessment tool

o Lewis Terman
o 1914
o Revised Binet-Simon Scale into Stanford-Binet Scale
o Lewis Terman and William Stern
o IQ = MA/CA x 100
 Nonverbal Testing, IQ/Group Testing on Military
o Robert Yerkes
o 1917
o Alpha and Beta Examination
o Alpha: Literate, native americans, verbal
o Beta: Illiterate, immigrants, nonverbal

o Robert Woodsworth
o Personal Data Sheet
o Shell shock military

o Herman Rorschach
o 1920
o Rorschach Inkblot Test

o Psychological Corporation
o 1921
o Cattell, Thorndike, Woods
o Useful application of Psychology

o Scholastic Aptitude Test

o 1926
o College Entrance Examination Board/Educational Testing Services

o Florence Goodenough
o Draw-A-Man Test
o Kurt Goldstein
o 1927
o Neurodiagnostic/Neuropsychological Test

o David Weschler
o 1939
o Weschler Bellevue Intelligence Scale

o Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Test

o 1942
o Clinical pen-and-paper test

o Henry Murray
o 1943
o Thematic Apperception Test
o Set of cards subject will describe

o Situational Performance Test

o 1948
o Office of Strategic Services

o Weschler Intelligence Scale for Children

o 1949

o David Super
o Career Psychology
o 1957

o John Holland
o 1975
o Vocational Preference Inventory
o RIASEC

o APA
o 1992
o Ethical Principles of a Psychologist and Code of Conduct