Psychological Test, Heilbronner Apperception Test
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content: In the early twentieth century, psychologists and neurologists developed ways to study how people made sense of what they saw. One early test of apperception was developed by the German-born scholar Karl Heilbronner (1869-1914), who was a professor in Utrecht in the Netherlands. The Heilbronner Apperception Test, as it was known in the United States, consisted of a series of images of familiar objects like a lamp, a book, and a bicycle. The first image showed only part of the object, with subsequent images showing more detail. In this example of the test, black and white sketches have been cut out and mounted on separate blue cards (the blue cards were themselves cut from cards associated with another test). There are from three to seven cards showing different images of a single object. The card with the least detailed drawing is numbered 1, the next to the least 2, and so forth. The sets of cards are separated with tan paper dividers as in card catalogs, with the first three dividers labeled A, B, and C; and the rest of the dividers numbered from I to X. A total of seventy cards have the images on them.
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content: The set fits into a brown cardboard box with a paper lid that is marked in ink: Heilbronner (/) Apperception (/) Test.
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content: References:
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content: Karl Heilbronner, “Zur klihisch-psychologischen Untersuchungstechnik,” <I>Monatsschrift für Psychiatrie und Neurologie</I>, 1905, 17, pp.115-132.
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content: Shepherd I. Franz, <I>Handbook of Mental Examination Methods</I>, New York: Journal of Nervous and Mental Diseases, 1912, pp. 79-83.
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content: Currently not on view
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content: Psychology
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content: Mathematics
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content: Psychological Tests
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content: Medicine and Science: Mathematics
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content: Gift of David Shakow
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content: National Museum of American History
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content: MA.316372.08
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content: 316372.08
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content: 316372
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content: Psychological Test
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content: paper (overall material)
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content: overall: 10 cm x 14 cm x 7 cm; 3 15/16 in x 5 1/2 in x 2 3/4 in