Word: psychologist
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...University has just announced the appointment of William McDougall, the well-known British psychologist, as Professor of Psychology. Prof. McDougall, who is at present Reader in Mental Philosophy and Fellow of Corpus Christi College at Oxford, will not be able to come here this year, and the governing boards of the University have, therefore, dated the appointment from September 1, 1920. Professor McDougall was educated at Owens College, Manchester and Cambridge, and subsequently studied medicine. He has been at Oxford for many years. During the war he served as a major in the Royal Army Medical Corps. The books which...
Walter Dill Scott, noted psychologist and author of a number of books on psychology and its relation to industry, will give a lecture in Emerson 8.15 o'clock this evening. His talk will deal with the personnel work in the Army and he will exhibit some of the paper work which was used in psychological tests. All members of the University and especially men who have been in the service are invited to attend...
...classifying and placing three and one-half million men according to occupation, trade, scale, schooling, intellectual ability, etc. This committee also provided tables of occupational needs and of the specifications and personnel for the various trades. In this invaluable work the executive ability and common sense of the psychologist was of more importance than their special technical knowledge...
...number of special problems have engaged the attention of the psychologists, such as the examination of aviators, the selection and training of telegraphers, the emotional fitness of the soldier, and the general factors of military education. In the Navy the psychologist was able to render valuable service in the selection and training of gunners, listeners, and lookouts, and in the distribution and assignment of men in the gun-fire squad...
...following year he was awarded his A.M., and in 1901 he received the degree of Ph.D. At that time Professor Yerkes began his teaching and investigating work at the University and in 1908 received the assistant professorship in his department. Five years later he was appointed psychologist to the Psychopathic Hospital, Boston. He is a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and a member of the American Psychological Association, and the American Societies of Naturalists and Zoologists. As an author he is known for numerous works on psychology...