Psychological Testing And American Society Summary

Book Review
Introduction
The book I chose to read for my assignment is titled Psychological Testing and American Society, and the editor’s name was Michael M. Sokal. The book had eight chapters that were established by different individuals. For example, chapter one and two was established from Sokal’s point of views as a historical and introduction context, and the chapters going forward were from other well-known authors/psychologist.
The book was interesting, and provided a lot of information about testing. Prior to reading to this book, I was expecting to learn more about specific psychological tests. Although the book provided a huge amount of information about history of psychological testing, the book provided a lot of helpful information

I found this section to be most interesting because this area highlighted forensics work and showed specific changes to the psychological aspect of forensics, which is one area I plan to do work in my future career. The exploration of politics over juvenile delinquency focused on the creation of the Ohio Bureau of Juvenile Research and the issues that had arisen from the early 20th century about public policies and scientific expertise as it relates to applying testing for child welfare services. The author indicated that during this time, the juveniles that were offenders were required care in state institution and automatically committed to a board that had sole guardianship over the minors. In this case, the board was granted rights to request the children to have a complete psychological testing and written report so that the board could determine which institution would best fit each juvenile. The power that the board was provided became a problem with political constitutions, which resulted in debates and issues that then led to several changes made by Goddard, Terman, and several other individuals within psychology and politics. Also, during this time, parents and guardian could request for psychological testing for their children.
Issues
There were a few issues within the book. The issues I had was more personal due to the book being published in 1991, and I typically

As mentioned before, the author wanted to highlight the experiences that the testers went through with individuals who were against psychological testing and the purpose of the test that have been described from the testers. The purpose of the book is considered a strength to me because it is a challenging topic that appears to always be in debate on whether psychological tests are valid and actually serve the purposes that are provided by the testers. In addition, the author’s focus of this book is a strength because it has been a limited topic in regards to information about the tester’s experiences and history that is provided in our coursework as professionals in training. Another strength from this book, it involves the reader to learn about other psychologist and their roles in development, movement, and influences of a variety of psychological tests that dated back to the 1890’s and later, such as James McKeen, Henry Goddard, Lewis Terman, and Robert Yerkes, just to name a few. On the other hand, I did not notice weaknesses within the writing. I did notice a weakness in the information that was provided due to the literature lacking information about testing and cultural competence and the relationships with different ethinic groups and mental testing. In addition, I did mention having an issue with comprehending some of the literature provided, but my issue was more personal