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History of psychology at Penn. College Hall was the site of the Department from the beginning until 1966. Psychology has been at the University of Pennsylvania since 1887. From the start it has emphasized both scientific rigor and practical application, not always at the same time. The first professor, James McKeen Cattell, was an advocate of ...
Abstract. Clinical psychology has grown tremendously since 1896, the year Lightner Witmer founded the world’s first psychological clinic at the University of Pennsylvania (Reisman, 1976). While once associated merely with clinic-based evaluation and treatment of childhood learning problems, the field of clinical psychology has expanded into a ...
1 gen 2014 · Witmer not only created the term “clinical psychology” but also founded the first psychological clinic in the last decade of the nineteenth century at the University of Pennsylvania . The clinic was established to treat children’s speech problems, sleep disturbances, behavioral problems, hyperactivity, and refusal to stay in ...
CLINICAL PSYCHOLOGY Lightner Witmer (1907) First published in Psychological Clinic, 1, 1-9. During the last ten years the laboratory of psychology at the University of Pennsylvania has conducted, under my direction, what I have called "a psychological clinic".
LIGHTNER WITMER AND THE CREATION OF CLINICAL PSYCHOLOGY Lightner Witmer (1867–1956) was born in Philadelphia and earned an undergraduate degree in business at the University of Pennsylvania. He eventually received his doctorate in psychology in 1892 in Germany under Wilhelm Wundt, who many label as the founder of experimental psychology.
This reprinted article originally appeared in The Psychological Clinic, 1907, I. Witmer 's original article describes the development of the psychological clinic at the University of Pennsylvania and explains the function of the clinic in providing conjoint physical and mental examinations. This article illustrates the operation of the clinic using case examples of children, psychology in ...
5 feb 2024 · Psychology is the science of mind, brain, and behavior. The Department of Psychology at the University of Pennsylvania is the oldest continuously functioning psychology department in North America. This image depeicts a stimulus used in David Brainard's lab for studies of how object shape and material properties influence object color appearance.
