Word: psychologist
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Heard a remarkable report on experiments that proved intelligence is affected by environment. Psychologist George Dinsmore Stoddard, director of the Child Welfare Station in Iowa City, Iowa, reported that: 1) illegitimate children of feeble-minded mothers and laboring fathers, after being placed in good homes, turned out to be bright children; 2) apparently normal youngsters, kept in an overcrowded orphanage, "deteriorated...
...discussing the situation in Massachusetts, Robart explained that the parole board enjoys complete independence from "political influence," and uses objective and scientific methods in granting paroles. "Each case is studied by a sociologist, a psychiatrist, a psychologist, and a doctor," he said...
...Science last week Psychologist Frank A. Beach Jr. of Manhattan's American Museum of Natural History announced a neat solution of this minor but often troublesome problem. The solution: tattooing. Instead of using a code, ordinary numbers are electronically tattooed in the rats' ears. In this way, Dr. Beach declared, "young rats can be marked for life at the time of weaning...
Astrologists claim that mysterious vibrations from distant stars influence human characteristics and abilities. Like every other scientist in good academic standing, Psychologist Paul Randolph Farnsworth of Stanford University views this claim with extreme skepticism. Last week he reported a statistical check of the horoscope makers on one specific point...
...eared, sandy-haired Dr. Louis Leon Thurstone is a mathematician as well as a psychologist. Scorning the vague, wordy theories of most psychologists, he likes to reduce psychology to mathematical formulae. Once Thomas Edison's assistant, he devised trade tests for the U. S. Army during the War, taught engineering at the University of Minnesota and psychology at Carnegie Institute until 1923. Since then he has been at the University of Chicago and last week he was made head of its famed psychology department. He has been president of the American Psychological Association, his intelligence tests are used...