Word: psychologist
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...College of the City of New York, psychologists reported the discovery of a 7-year-old boy with an intelligence quotient of 196, nine less than Einstein's, ten more than Darwin's. At the age of 18 mo. the prodigy, referred to only as "K," could converse fluently. At 20 mo., he knew the alphabet. Taken to the psychologist, K discussed the economics of the sales tax, explained how, given a 3-qt. and a 5-qt. pail, he could draw 7 qt. of water, asked his examiners whether they preferred his signature "printed or cursive." K reads...
...think that psychology should be treated as a science by itself," the world-famous psychologist declared, "Almost no other science is in natural touch with so many other neighboring fields. This contact is rather to be sought for than avoided, because the field of psychology would naturally receive so much aid from other sciences by such contact...
...psychologist, therefore, one had best keep his field of vision as broad as possible and I hope that the William James Lectures may be regarded as an application of this belief...
Wolfgang Kohler, foremost member of the school of Gestalt psychology, and professor of Philosophy and Director of the Psychological Institute at Berlin, will deliver this year the William James Lectures in Philosophy and Psychology at Harvard. Professor Kohler holds, as successor the famous psychologist, Stumpf, the most important European post in psychology, a position to which he was appointed in 1921 when he was only thirty-four years...
...researches on psychological acoustics, and after the World War he gained greater prominence because of his ingenious and insightful experiments upon the intelligence of apes. It is by this work and his popular lectures upon it that he is best known in America to persons who are not psychologist...