Anne Anastasi

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Anne Anastasi (born December 19, 1908 in New York City ; † May 4, 2001 ibid) was an American psychologist , known for psychological tests ( psychometrics ). She was known as the Test Guru .

Anne Anastasi was educated at home (an influence of their household dominant Sicilian grandmother, who held the family of noble descent and handle her grandchild for not worthy with the neighborhood kids) and visited two years 1922-23 at the Rhodes Preparatory School in Manhattan with Barnard College only 15 years , where she first studied mathematics, but then turned to psychology with a bachelor's degree in psychology in 1928. She was a student of psychologist Harry Levi Hollingworth (1880-1957) and her devotion to psychology was also on attributed to reading an article by Charles Spearman . A year later (1929) she received her PhD from Columbia University . From 1930 to 1939 she was an instructor in psychology at Barnard College and from 1939 Assistant Professor at Queens College . In 1947 she became an associate professor and in 1951 professor at Fordham University . In 1979 she retired and received an honorary doctorate from Fordham University.

1946/47 she was president of the Eastern Psychological Association . In 1987 she received the National Medal of Science . She was president of the American Psychological Foundation from 1965 to 1967, and in 1972 she became president of the American Psychological Association .

The first edition of their standard work Psychological Testing appeared in 1954.

Anastasi defined intelligence as follows in 1992: Intelligence is not a single ability, but rather is composed of various functions. It describes the combination of skills that are necessary for survival and success in a particular culture .

Accordingly, she warned about caution when handling intelligence tests, about the influence of cultural factors and environmental conditions (which also affect the type of test itself with which one wants to measure intelligence) and about test-specific influences. It also limited predictive power to the extent that people's abilities can change over time and the experiences they have.

Fonts

  • Psychological Testing, 7th edition, Macmillan 1996 (new edition with Susana Urbina)
  • Differential Psychology, 4th Edition, Macmillan 1981
  • Psychological testing, in: CE Walker (Ed.), Handbook of clinical psychology: Theory, research and practice, Homewood, Ill: Dow-Jones Irwin, Volume 1, 1983, pp. 420-444
  • What do intelligence tests measure?, In: SB Anderson, JS Hemlick (Eds.), On Educational Testing: Intelligence, Performance Standards, Test Anxiety, and Latent Traits, San Francisco: Jossey-Bass 1983, pp. 5-28
  • Psychological testing: basic concepts and common misconceptions, in: AM Rogers, CJ Sheirer (Ed.), G. Stanley Hall Lecture Series 5, Washington, DC: American Psychological Association 1985, pp. 87-120
  • Intelligence as a quality of behavior. In: R. J Sternberg, DK Detterman (Ed.) What is intelligence? Contemporary viewpoints on its nature and definition, Norwood: Ablex 1986, pp. 19-21
  • Anne Anastasi, in: G. Lindzey (ed.), History of psychology in autobiography, Stanford: Stanford University Press, Volume 7, 1989, pp. 1-37.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Her father died early and she grew up with a practical mother, her grandmother and a somewhat unworldly, albeit intellectually highly educated, uncle
  2. ↑ Intelligence is not a single, unitary ability, but rather a composite of several functions. The term denotes that combination of abilities required for survival and advancement within a particular culture , Anastasi, What counselors should know about the use and interpretation of psychological tests. Journal of Counseling and Development, Volume 70, 1992, pp. 610-615, here p. 612
personal data
SURNAME Anastasi, Anne
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American psychologist
DATE OF BIRTH December 19, 1908
PLACE OF BIRTH New York City
DATE OF DEATH May 4, 2001
Place of death New York City