Week 9 hist

the national council of women psychologists

APA, AAAP, ECP, NCWP. Florence Goodenough as president. focused on community, coordinating childcare for workers, nursery school workers, selection of women officer candidates.

Army General classification test

developed from Walter van Dyke Bingham. used to select personnel seen as general learning tool rather than intelligence influenced both by nurture. non threatening, sensible and practical.

James grier miller

put in charge of the clinical psychology training program 1946. worked with apa to establish

scientist - practitioner model of clinical training

model of training for clinical practitioners that developed out of a conference held in Boulder colorado. developed from early templet from David shakow that psychologists needed to be scientists

B.F Skinner

americas foremost scientists influential in behaviourism. operant conditioning, air crib, behaviour modification

carl rogers

client centred psychotherapy

Mamie phipps clark and Kenneth Bancroft clark

doll study. studied structural barriers found within institutions based on race. children

Third force

emergence of humanistic psychology in 60s third wave of psych theory following psychoanalysis and behaviourism

Emergency committee in psychology

overarching committee containing members from APA and AAAP looked at involvement of psychology in war → all male

Office for strategic services

Henry murray worked with to develop assessment to train and select potential secret agents

Consumerism

grew post war. saw metal health as purchasable commodity. growth in pop and economy increased consumerism of goods and services. the good life.

GI bill

provided funding for the education for the nations veterans leading to rapid growth and expansion in higher ed. psych attractive

Operant conditioning

term used by B. F skinner part of radical behaviourist view that learning occurs when organisms “operate” on their environment to produce consequences.

Commission on community interrelations project

incident control project, designed to teach people “how to stop the bigot” by intervening when there is a public display of racism.

Veterans

want for clinical psychological services for veterans post war. brought about careers for many psychologists.

Mildred Mitchell

worked veterans administration