Word: psychologists
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Most psychologists firmly believe that companionship with intelligent parents and playmates is the most important factor in a child's mental development. The Emperor of Japan shares this view (see p. 31). But last week at the Chicago meeting of the American Association for Mental Deficiency, Psychologist Harold Manville Skeels of the State University of Iowa, questioned this old belief...
...orphanage packed with healthy, intelligent moppets, and placed them in a home for feeble-minded girls. The inmates lavished upon the deficient babies a wealth of feeble-minded love. They made them toys, watched them play, gave them plenty of room to run around. Within two years, to the psychologist's amazement, the intelligence quotients of twelve of the orphans rose sharply, in some cases as much as 40 points, and they appeared superior in intelligence to their playmates in the asylum. Later, seven of them were adopted. During the same period, twelve of the normal children who remained...
...Psychologist Skeel's conclusion: more than anything else, for mental growth children need "adult affection and stimulation," no matter from whom it comes...
...craving of these goldfish cultists," explained Chicago's Consulting Psychologist Robert N. McMurray, "really is for public acclaim, that is, exhibitionism. The eater of goldfish takes delight in the repulsiveness...
Other criteria of emotion in Dr. Hall's rats were refusal to eat, refusal to move about. They were placed in the enclosure for two minutes a day, day after day. In general the emotional rats manifested uneasiness longest, started eating latest. The psychologist bred emotional males to emotional females, unemotional males to unemotional females. He thus obtained two second generations, one of which was seven times more emotional than the other. Conclusion: "Differences in emotionality appear to be genetically determined...