Word: psychologist
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...their eagerness to put the calculator to work, the committee should not let the preparedness of the physicists outweigh the need of the psychologist. The latter must be given a little grace to reorient his thinking. As Professor Leontief, also a member, of the committee, points out, his fellow economists have intentionally pursued their investigations in broad, vague terms, because of the tediousness and expense of dealing mathematically with the voluminous statistics confronting them. The genius of the calculator is that it can deal with many variables operating simultaneously. In the fluid and changing battleground of economics, sociology, and social...
...Kindergarten and first-grade enrollments were bulging with the first war babies to reach school age. Babies who passed their infancy in these hectic times, warned an Ohio psychologist, are apt to be jittery about such a violent novelty as school. Dr. Clare W. Graves of Western Reserve University advised parents to watch for such signs of nervous tension as mouth-tugging and hair-pulling. After a couple of weeks in school, kindergartners are apt to go on talking jags; the only thing for parents to do then, said Dr. Graves, is to grit their teeth and listen sympathetically...
...natural enemy of Roman Catholicism? The question was still warm last week, thanks to the set-to between Msgr. Fulton J. Sheen and Psychiatrist Frank J. Curran (TIME, July 28). Not likely to quench the flames of controversy was an article in the Catholic weekly Commonweal by Catholic Psychologist Dr. Harry McNeill, prewar teacher at Fordham University, now a clinical psychologist in the Veterans Administration. Gist of the article: the Church has much to learn from Freud-and vice versa. Excerpts...
Little pitchers not only have big ears, but they fill up faster than grownups think they do. At least, so says Robert H. Seashore, Northwestern University psychologist. After testing vocabularies of Illinois public-school children for more than six years, he is convinced that the average first-grader knows about ten times as many words as he is supposed...
...Said Psychologist Terman: "We see no signs of a prospective statesman in the group; thus far, the highest elective office held by any...is that of Assemblyman. It contains...no mathematician of truly first rank, no university president. It gives no promise of contributing any Aristotles, Newtons, Tolstoys...." Psychologist Terman thinks the 1,400 entitled to another 25 years before making final judgment on them. But he has already come to one conclusion:"In achieving eminence, much depends on chance...