Word: psychologists
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...psychologist, specializing in educational measurements and statistics. In 1938. Rulon and a group of Boston colleagues founded the Educational Research Corporation which he served as president from 1954 to 1958 and as treasurer until his death...
...measure can be taken precisely in feet and inches, but he also has a far less exact psychological, or perceived, height. In the eye of the be holder, he may seem taller or shorter in direct proportion to his title or accomplishments. So says Australian Psychologist Paul R. Wilson in the Journal of Social Psychology...
Critics of the charismatic movement argue that it is fundamentally an unhealthy cult experience, which tends to separate the gifted illuminati from the majority of believers. California Psychologist Dr. Paul Morentz believes that it thrives among insecure personalities who are in desperate need of certitude. On the other hand, the Rev. Larry Christianson of Trinity Lutheran Church in San Pedro, Calif., contends that the gifts are "God's answer to the hyperintellectualism of our age" and the cold impersonality of formal worship. Surprisingly, even some Roman Catholic participants at the Dayton conference were cautiously optimistic about the prospect...
Regimen of Recapitulation. The patterning method was devised in the early 1950s by Physical Therapist Glenn J. Doman and Psychologist Carl Delacato. To apply the novel technique, they organized Philadelphia's Institutes for the Achievement of Human Potential. The therapy is based on a highly disputed hypothesis. According to the Doman-Delacato theory, impairment of speech, vision and manual skills can be caused by the interruption of a child's normal progress from creeping to crawling to walking. Discarding standard evaluation systems and using an elaborate diagnostic scheme of their own, Doman and Delacato classify retarded children...
...ever going to change white attitudes by sodding some white suburban lawn-but white society is sensitive and susceptible to pressure from its own kind. "The basic thing the individual should do is start to change the institutions in which he is involved," says Thomas F. Pettigrew, Harvard social psychologist. "You change people's attitudes by changing their behavior first. And you change behavior by changing institutions-the institutions that require us to behave in racist ways...