Psychological Test in Spain 1920-1970
Toward 1920, it begins to emerge in Spain Psychological Test in Spain 1920-1970
Toward 1920, it begins to emerge in Spain
interest in psychodiagnostics
by setting out reliable parameters
that confer it scientific character.
It's the year that gives rise to the exhibition
"Psychological Tests in Spain- 1920-1970",
hosted by UNED, National University of Distance Education,
until next 31st March.
A traveling exhibition commissioned by psychology professors
Complutense University of Madrid, Isabel Calonge and Ana María Calles,
which invites us to travel along 50 years psychology history in Spain.
Actually, history of the tests
it emerges internationally a little earlier, that is,
at the end of the 19th century and the beginning of the 20th c.,when,
from a very important necessity detected in society,
as is classification, initially,
of children abandoned in society.
Binet in 1905,
he responds to that social request the Paris City Council.
and he creates for the first time a test, the Binet scale
in cooperation with Simon.
This proof was as some kind of shot
so that in Europe they began to develop
lots of psychological tools.
Spain also collected this scientific legacy,
as a base tool for evaluation of intelligence,
first, in schools.
A pioneering work, that traced the scheme
of a discipline still under construction
and it would be extended to other areas of social life.
The progressive national industrialization,
workers selection became in other field
extremely fertile for psycho techniques;
as it would be, over the years,
the study of personality through projective techniques,
another valuable tool
which it closes the account of this display.
We have also had to introduce a review part
of institutions, authors, people,
highlighting aspects as important as the first women
who worked in psychological tests in Spain.
Several women went to improve their studies abroad,
to France or Switzerland, where they were quite advanced
the child psychological studies in that moment.
There, they obtained a title equivalent to what would be a master today
and they returned with their psychologist title
in the Roaring 20's to Spain and they found a field of work.
Women such as Mercedes Rodrigo and Maria Soriano
they shared scene with psychology leaders of the moment
such as Rodríquez Lafora, Mariano Yela or José Luis Pinillos.
The task of all of them in the elaboration,
implementation and interpretation of psychological tests,
they made of this tool
a distinguishing mark for future psychologists.
The different pieces that make up this exhibition
they form a suggestive historical account
that allow a better insight into development of the current tests
and the exercise of psychological evaluation.
First of all, this exhibition has a historical value,
but I would also say that it has a scientific value,
a teaching value; I would even add an aesthetic value.
Historical, because in some way,
it is a legacy that our ancestors left to psychology
and we can see not only the technical conditions
in which at that time it worked with, the type of material,
the type of technology; but also psychosocial conditions.
If we attentively observe some items of this showing,
we will see as specific items included in psychological tests,
that have a close connection with lifestyle
understanding the life at that time.
This sociocultural component
which confers a scientific value even broader,
in interpretation of the results
and in adaptation to different areas,
places and historical moments.
In this sense UNED,
so linked to the historical references
as well as current and future knowledge makers,
it's proud to host this exhibition
open to the general public and the whole university community.
Locution: Juan Ramon Andres Script and Production: Yolanda Prieto open to the general public and the whole university community.
Script and Production: Yolanda Prieto Locution: Juan Ramon Andres