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  1. Oct 2021
    1. scientific racism did not disappear and underwent renewal during the civil rights era and again during the 1970s and 1990s, Intelligence test scores were a primary weapon in attempts to preserve segregated schools and later to justify economic inequality.

      This quote is one of the most important things that has been said in this essay because it shows that scientific racism is an issue that still exist till this day and how the main point of the intelligence test score is to prove that blacks needs to be separated from whites.

    2. Whites were indeed slowest,

      So this basically says that whites are smarter in the brain, but slower in the physical activity and that's because they did not have to suffer like blacks did.

    3. However, psychologists have also played a major role in the promotion of “scientific racism,”

      I believe that scientific racism was a major point during those times, because psychology was not a diverse field, where they were, other psychology people of color, I think the more our environment is diverse and we learn about others culture the more educated and open minded we become.

    4. Africans were sometimes arranged along a “scale of nature,

      This was a very weird experiment, because they judged the person's ability, and intelligent by their scale shape size and that their conclusion was that African person is less developed than a white person.

    5. , the quantitative study of mental abilities was already underway in the 1890s.

      As we know that intelligence testing is not accurate and basically in this case they used it to separate and discriminate against others.

    1. example of the many psychologists who have advanced the notion of race differences in mental life. Indeed, the discipline of psychology has a long history of contributing pionee

      I believe the reason behind this view was because psychologist was still not used to seeing others from a different background being involved with educational achievement and also were discriminating women based on their gender and not their work.

    2. es Blacks as being by nature more aggressive, less intellige

      I'm still confused on how he was giving the right to publish these negative accusations without somebody stooping him or an actual evidence ?

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    1. All the correspondence and communications we received have been depos- ited with the Archives of Ameri Akron, an Psychology at the University of

      This was the shift in the subject matter of study.

    2. mall though it was at the time—if he had spent some time at one of the major German laboratories, particularly Wilhelm Wundt’s in Leipzig. Pilgrimage to Germany was necessary for any American psychologist who could afford it financially or intellectually.

      Although it was a small idea he tried to test it and see if it actually works by using the laboratory.

    3. influential immigrants, just as the total num- ber of immigrants in psychology was very small.

      This very interesting to know that their were influential immigrants who helped with shaping psychology, because I believe that immigrants has a huge impact because they have personal difficulties that they can share and help others.

  3. Sep 2021
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    1. Hismethod was an extensive use of existing ethnographic and an-thropological writing, as well as the most widely used extrapola-tions on language, the family, and other human institutions

      Explaining his method and why thought about it.

    2. During his early period in Heidelberg,Wundt saw sensory physiology as his true avocation and soonstarted work on his Principles of Physiological Psychology (Grund-zu ̈ge der physiologischen Psychologie), which was published in1874,3 the year he left the university to live in Zurich.

      This part is very important because it shows how Wundt paid more attention to physiology and how it was his hobby.

    1. In the middle of 2010 the press reported that a school board member in Marysville (Washington State) had suggested to his colleagues that different racial groups display different academic achievements due to different br

      This is unbelievable, this type of education is not healthy for the students and the brain because it makes you question your ability and start question your self, which in a psychology term gives you anxiety.

    1. German philosopher Immanuel Kant (1724–1804) argued that there were serious imped-iments to a natural science of the mind, butdespite this position his ideas actually propelledthe emergence of scientific psychology.

      German philosopher Kant realized that some concept such as space and time most be already built from the beginning and that we don't need to experience the world to gain knowledge.