Word: psychologists
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Such was the challenge flung last week in Cleveland at conferring members of the National Vocational Guidance Association. Challenger was Research Associate Irving Lorge of Columbia's Teachers College. His "proof" was a survey conducted in New York City under Columbia's famed Psychologist Edward Lee Thorndike...
...volume in which topflight science men were starred by asterisks. American Men of Science was launched nearly three decades ago with a $1,000 grant from the Carnegie Institution. Through five editions it has been edited by Dr. James McKeen Cattell, now 73, himself a starred psychologist. But Dr. Cattell awards no star either to himself or to others. From the beginning starred scientists have been chosen by vote of men of standing in their respective fields. For the latest edition 250 were selected from some 20,000 candidates...
...parents speed up their lagging children, prevent their being tardy at school? Last week Miss Nellie W. Birdsong, psychologist of Maryland State Normal School, told a Child Study Association meeting: "Children too frequently feel themselves the centre of attention when repeated calls are made for them to get up in the morning, to hurry over their dressing and to eat their meals. Flattered, they try to keep the centre of the stage by actions that seem to them to elicit this specific attention. A little seeming indifference on the part of parents and the throwing of more responsibility upon...
...Examination in Education is divided in two parts, one a "Comprehensive Paper" covering problems with which all teachers and school officers must be familiar, and a "Special-Field Paper," involving problems pertinent only to the work of specialists such as the superintendent of schools, the teacher of mathematics, the psychologist, etc. In the Comprehensive Paper this year, experiments will be tried out with the use of "objective" answers in addition to the usual "essay type" of answers...
...begins to talk coherently. That speech study waits on some interested philanthropist providing a few thousand dollars. A merry account of doughty Johnny and timid Jimmy Dr. McGraw took to Chicago last week for the 41st convention of the American Psychological Association. Her gayety was refreshing there. For the psychologists were squabbling about the Psychological Corporation. Dr. James McKeen Cattell, 73, pioneer U. S. psychologist, formed Psychological Corp. twelve years ago. This was one of several mixtures of scholarship and business which he developed after Columbia University forced his resignation from the faculty on account of his outspoken pacifism...