1992/07/01 by Kurt Kreppner · 2 citations
Psychology · #Academic and Historical Perspectives in Psychology #Cognitive Abilities and Testing #Outdoor and Experiential Education
paper · doi:10.1037/0012-1649.28.4.539
openalex publication_date 1992/07/01 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/22
William Stern was born in 1871 in Berlin, Germany, and died in 1938 in Durham, North Carolina. Educated at Berlin University, he developed very early a theoretical view to overcome the fundamental split in the academic psychology of his time, that between elementarism and wholism on the one hand and environmentalism and nativism on the other. Besides inventing such well-known concepts as IQ, differential psychology, and the nomothetic-idiographic approach, Stern put much effort into developing a personalistic psychology that emphasized both the individual's active role and the importance of context in development. This article focuses on Stern's main contribution to developmental psychology