Word: psychologist
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...These examples seem to deal with trivia, but useful research does get lost almost daily in the scholar's effort to be so precise that he ends up being in comprehensible. In The Concepts of Over-and Under achievement, Psychologist Robert L. Thorndike, also of Teachers College, writes: "In the study of discrepancies between actual and predicted achievement, we are dealing with a set of discrepancies between actual final achievement and the level of achievement that would have been fore cast on the basis of the known relation ship between final achievement and some measure of aptitude...
James G. Holland, a research psychologist, and Bahjat B. Khielf, a native of Nazareth, Palestine, have been appointed lecturers on Education. Mr. Khielf will also serve as a research associate in the Center for Field Studies of the School of Education...
Culture at 7:30 a.m. Beverly Hills High gets relatively few children of Hollywood stars. Many are whisked off to boarding schools for "convenience." The result makes Beverly all the more stable. Psychologist Morgenstern finds delinquency almost unknown: "We don't have the acting-out kids, the shove-it-up kids, the violently self-assertive kids." Beverly's main problem is that such homogeneous isolation removes it a bit from the real world...
...have to have cookies with the ladies." But by phone Beilis got the Golden word from North Carolina for a cutrate $214-$64 for the call and $150 for Harry. Omaha has since staged telelectures with eminences all over, from Anthropologist Margaret Mead in Manhattan to Psychologist B. F. Skinner at Harvard...
...atheists are unquestionably neurotics - typically, the young idealist whose religious fervor turns into bitter anticlericalism after an unhappy experience in a seminary. Lepp has found that psychology can help cure such atheists of their emotional hostility toward religion, but will not affect their unbelief. "It is not in the psychologist's power either to give or to destroy faith," he warns. "This belongs to a metapsychical domain which the theologians call grace." Atheists by and large, he says, are not particularly neurotic...