The Definition of a Profession : the Authority of Metaphor in the History of Intelligence Testing, 1890-1930.

The Definition of a Profession : the Authority of Metaphor in the History of Intelligence Testing, 1890-1930.

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In the early twentieth century, a small group of psychologists built a profession upon the new social technology of intelligence testing. They imagined the human mind as quantifiable, defining their new enterprise through analogies to the better established scientific professions of medicine and eng...

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Main Author: Brown, JoAnne
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Princeton : Princeton University Press, 2001.
Subjects:
Intelligence tests > United States > History.
Psychology > United States > Language > History.
English language > Social aspects > United States > History.
Professions > United States > Psychological aspects > History.
Medicine and psychology > United States > History.
Engineering > United States > Language > History.
Progressivism (United States politics)
Engineering > Language.
English language > Social aspects.
Intelligence tests.
Medicine and psychology.
Professions > Psychological aspects.
Psychology > Language.
United States.
History.

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Call Number: BF431.5.U6B76 1992
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