Word: psycho
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Developed by Walter F. Dearborn, director of the Harvard Psycho-Educational Clinic, this new technique in reading gives promise of being one of the most effective devices for the improvement of skills in reading...
...Yardling to profit from his icy plunge into the November Hour Exams and improve his marks by February, reading class or no reading class. And the number of men who were involved was so small that any sweeping generalizations would be unsafe. But none the less, the Psycho-Educational Clinic has been encouraged this year to conduct larger, general reading examinations in an attempt to secure more comprehensive results; and although the records may not be made public until next fall, there is talk of further expansion...
...year was spent in the perfection of the motion-picture technique, and although, as it now stands, the process is complete, all its ramifications and possibilities have not been investigated. By April, it is hoped, according to Professor Walter F. Dearborn, Director of the Psycho-Educational Clinic, and head of the experiment, "that films suitable for the fourth and fifth grades will be on hand...
...declared the literary psycho-analysts have gone astray in applying their methods, of drawing great conclusions from dubious and unimportant facts, to Dostoievsky. After declaring unsatisfactory all biographies of Dostoievsky, he announced that he had justed started such a biography...
...knowledge of Psychology is of especial value for careers in medicine, teaching, psychiatry, social work, and advertising. It is not as valuable as it might be, however, for concentrators felt that too much time was given to psycho-physics, and not enough to practical human psychology. Course 17 in Child Psychology, a new course in a much needed subject, was disappointing in that too much attention was given to pure statistics...