Word: psychologist
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Physiologists Henry Buchtel and Giovanni Berlucchi recall that a question asked in a classic 1950 history of experimental psychology-"Where or how does the brain store its memories? That is the great mystery"-is still unanswered a quarter of a century later. Psychologist Wilse Webb cheerfully admits that after years of research on sleep, he still does not understand its purpose...
When we were allowed to read books, magazines and newspapers, I voraciously read, finding in every word a novelty?something which opened new horizons before my eyes. It was thanks to an article contributed by an American psychologist to the Reader's Digest that I succeeded in getting over my troubles. The gist of that article was that a shock may occur, at any stage in a man's life, which might make him feel that all avenues in front of him are blocked, that life itself is a prison cell with a perpetually locked door...
...analysis contributed by that psychologist opened infinite horizons of love before me: my relations with the entire universe began to be reshaped and love became the fountainhead of all my actions and feelings. Armed with faith and perfect peace of mind, I have never been shaken by the turbulent events, both private and public, through which I have lived...
...years ago when a French psychologist named Alfred Binet first devised a test that attempted to measure a child's intelligence. Seeking a way to distinguish truly retarded students from laggards with hidden ability, Binet developed a series of exercises involving completion of pictures and the assembling of objects, as well as problems in math, vocabulary and reasoning. To score the test, an equation was devised that divided a child's mental age-as determined by the test -by his chronological age, thus producing an "intelligence quotient." If a six-year-old child was thinking like most other...
...children, for example, can change 17 points to 20 points up or down before the age of 18, and there is sometimes a marked change from one year to the next. Many experts even question how much IQ scores have to do with intelligence. Few support Harvard Psychologist Richard Herrnstein's position that intelligence is primarily an innate ability, rather than an evolving capacity resulting from the interplay of mental quickness and environmental conditioning. It is also possible that such personal traits as drive and persistence-factors that IQ tests cannot measure-are as important as inherent reasoning ability...