Word: psychologistic
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...means disapprove of all dropouts. If dropouts lack "motivation," it may be a healthy reaction against too many rules and goals that-for them-are momentarily false. Adolescence is by definition a struggle to create a self. Sometimes an intelligent retreat is the best way to win. Says Stanford Psychologist Nevitt Sanford: "Leaving college may leave a student with a sense of unfinished business that will, in some cases, provide motivation for learning for the rest of his life...
Parker has one teacher for every eleven students, a fulltime psychologist and 25 part-time teaching assistants. Pay is not high-the lure is freedom in teaching. Specializing in one subject, Parker's teachers get a chance to cover it at many levels. Barr McCutcheon teaches algebra to fifth-graders and transfinite arithmetic to seniors, for example, and McCutcheon need not bother with standard math texts-"a bore." "For an educator, this is heaven," says Principal Thomas, who notes that 36 teachers applied for a single vacancy in the history department this spring...
Radiation hazards are multiplying fast today, but Psychologist Edward L. Hunt of the U.S. Naval Radiological Defense Laboratory in San Francisco thinks that nature has not exhausted her defensive resources. He is sure that some higher animals-perhaps even man-have a latent radiation sense that might be trained to warn them against Atomic Age hazards...
...scholars will receive stipends of up to $3,000, except for the winner of the Helen C. Putnam Research Fellowship. This award, formerly administered by the Radcliffe Graduate School, provides an unspecified amount of more than $3,000 and next year will go to Eva Somjen, a clinical psychologist from New Zealand...
...Biological Psychiatry, but he and his researchers are encouraged. They are working on ways to reduce RNA's undesirable side effects and are trying a tablet form. Because his investigations called for far more liberties than can be taken with human subjects, the University of Michigan's Psychologist James V. McConnell, 36, turned to flatworms (Planaria), regarded as the most primitive creatures capable of true "learning." In 150 to 250 lessons, the worms learned that the flashing on of an electric light meant that they should contract and brace themselves for an electric shock. With this Pavlovian conditional...