Word: psychologists
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...adult life in France and seems to be settled there. Born in Allegheny, Pa. (then a suburb of Pittsburgh) "of a very respectable middle class family" of German Jews, she was taken abroad at an early age, spent her youth in California and Baltimore. At Radcliffe she studied under Psychologist William James, was one of his star pupils. At the final examination in his course she turned in a blank paper, with a note explaining that she did not feel like writing an exam that day. Next day came a postcard from James saying: "I understand perfectly how you feel...
...cause & cure, he finds himself adrift in theory. In a letter to the Times, Dr. Harry Campbell, veteran British neurologist, spoke for the older school when he declared that claustrophobia is simply the morbid expression of a universal animal instinct to avoid capture. Dr. W. Stephenson, University of London psychologist, tartly retorted through the Times that Dr. Campbell's theory was 'very inadequate. . . . Much more satisfactory is ... the current psychoanalytical theory." Psychoanalysis holds, roughly, that morbid fear is the result of a distressing experience in early life, later repressed into the Unconscious (i. e. forgotten). Relief is obtained...
...Psychologist Stagner, apology...
...Paris, Psychologist Henri Pieron measured the amount of light which made him see, the amount of noise which made him hear, the amounts of energy which stirred his senses of taste, smell, touch. He examined the brains of beasts and men and concluded, he said in Chicago last week, that for every kind of outside impulse to which man is sensitive there is a particular, infinitesimal cell in his brain. We do not see ultraviolet light or feel infrared heat simply because we have no brain cells to receive those impressions. The impressions which do stimulate our brain affect...
...sane and of the insane. More advanced courses are offered in this subject a the Boston Psychopathic Hospital by psychiatrists from the Medical School. Social Psychology and the Psychology of Personality are taken up from the point of view of the sociologist as sell as that of the psychologist. As for the more exact departments of psychology, there are courses in Statistical Method, which is highly mathematical, in Experimental Psychology with laboratory work, and in psychophysiology. It can be seen from the foregoing remarks that a number of courses in other fields must be related to Psychology. Philosophy, Sociology, Anthropology...