Word: psychologist
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Psychologist Jerome S. Bruner is for "the fertile hypothesis, the courageous leap to a tentative conclusion"; see EDUCATION, The New Learning...
Thus noted Harvard Psychologist Jerome S. Bruner, in The Process of Education (Harvard University Press; $2.75), summarizes the experience of 35 top scholars, who pooled their theories for improving science teaching last year at a ten-day meeting called by the National Academy of Sciences at Woods Hole, Mass...
...Swiss Psychologist Bärbel Inhelder suggests some translations. For example, a five-year-old thinks that a tall glass contains more water than a flat bowl. Shown that glass and bowl contain equal amounts, he is learning the principle of the invariance of quantities. In fact, a grade school teacher with a roulette wheel may turn out students more skilled in probabilistic reasoning than a college professor with a course in statistics...
...harpsichord." Most harpsichord buffs are piano players who discovered baroque music on LPs; once accustomed to the sweet, incisive, brilliant tone of the harpsichord (its metal strings are plucked by leather plectra or picks, instead of being struck by hammers), they find its sound mystically satisfying. West Coast Psychologist Bob Johnson, 39, heard his first harpsichord on a recording by Yella Pessl, found, while living in Portland, that he felt "sad and in limbo because there was no harpsichord in 1,000 miles." He bought two, now holds frequent meetings for fellow harpsichordists at evening sessions in his home...
...down loft in Manhattan's Greenwich Village, an ex-child psychologist named Wallace Zuckermann turns out the U.S.'s only mass-produced harpsichord, an instrument that sells briskly for $750, but is derided by professionals. Last spring, Zuckermann went a step further: for a mere $150, his clients can now buy the Zuckermann Do-It-Yourself Harpsichord Kit, complete with diagrams, strings, jacks and Ivaloid plastic keys...