Word: psychologist
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...suggests Manhattan Psychologist Victor Goertzel, president of the National Association for Gifted Children. By studying the lives of 350 well-known people, Goertzel, 46, is trying to discover what kind of families breed the species. From the first 77 cases-he is methodically working through the alphabet-Psychologist Goertzel reports, in The Gifted Child Quarterly, that...
...this turmoil may have more to do with fostering creativity than does a high IQ, says Psychologist Goertzel. He also argues that "it is not true that traumatic experiences in childhood invariably lead to emotional disturbances and failure." (Only one of his first 77 cases, Cross Founder Clara Barton, was ever confined to a mental hospital.) His subjects loved their mixed-up homes, mainly rebelled against a mixed-up society...
...assemble this bundle of his father's correspondence, some of it already mined by Ernest Jones in his famed biography of the Master. Freud's letters are not brilliant, witty, or especially intimate. But their truculent honesty makes for a paradoxical and amusingly human revelation. The dedicated psychologist of sex was no sophisticate, but a square...
...Teachers? The Min-Max was invented by Albuquerque's Teaching Machines Inc.. a group of psychologists who already have programed, or composed, seven courses, ranging from elementary spelling to college statistics that are ready for sale by Grolier for $5 to $15 each. Programing is an outgrowth of psychological experiments with animals, which can be taught complicated tricks on a one-step-at-a-time basis if frequently rewarded. Harvard Psychologist B. Frederic Skinner, 56, is the leader in adapting animal conditioning techniques to teaching humans; most machine programing follows his basic research experiments on Harvard and Radcliffe...
Purex Specials. A daytime series intended mainly for women-although the first program interested a nearly equal number of men. Called The Cold Woman, it dealt with sexual frigidity in the human female, effectively balanced four acts of slightly soapy dramatization with clinical commentary by a psychiatrist and a psychologist...