Word: psychologistic
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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What might be next in theology? Philosopher-Psychologist Jean Houston, co-director with her husband R. E. L. Masters of the Foundation for Mind Research, believes that current experiments in deepening awareness by psychological techniques or with drugs (which she does not advocate) are already leading to a rise in what she calls "experiential" theology. According to Houston, the human psyche possesses a "built-in point of contact" with a larger reality that is experienced as divine. As the laboratory "improves upon techniques developed in the monastery," people will increasingly encounter this interior sacrality. Indeed, she claims, "theology may soon...
...pact or the motive. The four are loners, dependent upon each other in tangled psychological ways. Adler is a fat, ugly and lonely neuter from the Ozarks, who cannot reconcile his hillbilly background with his aspirations in botany and his love of dance and literature. Pless, a young psychologist whose feelings have been frozen since his father's death in a foolish flying accident, and Stoker, a hopeful writer still struggling with sexual incompetence, grew up together in Florida as the sons of Air Force pilots...
FRITZ LANG'S most brilliant act was the creation of Dr. Mabuse. Esteemed psychologist, master-mind counterfeiter, Mabuse prowled fast society "to play with men's lives and men's souls." Disguised as a smooth-faced young compulsive or a solid English gentleman, he gained admission to private gambling clubs and forced men with his eyes to play millions of marks into his hands. Made up as Dr. Weltmann in long seraggly hair and beard, he conducted public demonstrations of hypnosis that almost succeeded in doing away with his arch-enemy, detective de Witt. Undisguised he discarded the women...
...their world with immense zest, and his findings have given encouragement and innumerable specific suggestions to the "discovery method" of teaching. Now used in many schools across the U.S. and in Great Britain, the method draws also on the ideas of John Dewey, Italian Educator Maria Montessori and Harvard Psychologist Jerome Bruner. Discovery classrooms, in essence, are informal laboratories where children gain an early familiarity with the principles of Euclidean geometry by manipulating variously shaped objects, and learn fundamentals of counting and reproduction by charting the egg production of classroom hens. As Piaget said recently, "a ready-made truth...
...Born in Neuchâtel, Switzerland, he was a child prodigy who published important papers on mollusks before he was out of high school, later became "haunted by the idea of discovering a sort of embryology of intelligence." In 1920 he went to work in the Paris laboratory of Psychologist Théodore Simon, a co-developer with Alfred Binet of the first successful IQ test. Poring over the "wrong" answers that children regularly gave on the tests, Piaget was surprised to see that the responses fell into patterns that differed according to the children's ages...