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Page history last edited by Chris Koch 5 years, 9 months ago

1887 

Samuel Fernberger was born.  Fernberger was a psychophysicist who wrote several classic papers in the field.  Other contributions studies of facial expression of emotion, professional psychology, and the history of psychology.

1897 

Edward L. Thorndike met James McKeen Cattell for the first time.  After two years at Harvard University, Thorndike finished his doctoral work at Columbia under Cattell's supervision.  His doctoral thesis, Animal Intelligence, described his studies of escape learning in cats and became a classic of early research in learning.

1901 

Everet Franklin Lindquist was born.  Lindquist was a pioneer in educational assessment who developed the Iowa Tests of Basic Skills and the Iowa Tests of Educational Development.  During World War II, he developed a high school equivalency examination that has become the Test of General Educational Development (GED). His statistics text was a standard for many years.
1901 Gregory Razran was born.  Razran did extensive work in classical conditioning and served as an intermediary between American and Soviet psychologists.

1911 

Silvan S. Tomkins was born.  Tomkins's early work explored personality assessment with the Thematic Apperception Test and the Tomkins-Horn Picture Arrangement Test.  Later work focused on identifying a set of innate primary emotions and describing their features and development.

1922 

Stanley F. Schneider was born.  Schneider's 25 years of service at the National Institute of Mental Health was marked by the promotion of innovative education, training, and research efforts in psychology.  APA Award for Distinguished Education and Training Contributions, 1988.

1925 

In a letter to Wolfgang Köhler, Edwin G. Boring reported that the laboratory budget at Harvard University was $148, including $31 of Boring's own money.

1938 

Sigmund Freud fled Austria, a victim of Nazi persecution.  Before leaving, he was forced to sign a document testifying that he had received respectful treatment from the Nazis.  Freud signed and added the sarcastic comment, "I can heartily recommend the Gestapo to anyone." Freud traveled to Paris and then to London, where he resided at 20 Maresfield Gardens in Hampstead."

1952 

Gary B. Melton was born.  Melton's research has focused on the concerns of children and adolescents, addressing such topics as children's understanding of their own rights, child abuse, the impact of school prayer, children in rural settings, and legal applications of developmental research.  APA Distinguished Contribution to Psychology in the Public Interest Award, 1985.
1962 B. J. Winer's authoritative book _Statistical Principles in Experimental Design_ was published.  From 1969 to 1977 this book was cited in 5,279 articles, four times more citations than any other social science book.
1965 The drug Serax (oxazepam; Wyeth) was approved for use by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration.  Oxazepam is a benzodiazepine and is used as an anti-anxiety agent and as a sedative.
1965 A dozen protest marchers appeared at the APA Headquarters Building in Washington, DC, carrying signs protesting immorality practiced under the cover of phony science. "The group represented the Committee to Bring Morality to the Mental Professions and attacked the APA, psychological testing, and psychotherapy by non-physicians."
1975 The antiepileptic drug Klonopin (clonazepam; Hoffman-LaRoche) was approved for use by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration.  Clonazepam is a benzodiazepine used primarily for absence, or petit mal, seizures.
1982 Social Scientists Against Nuclear War was founded at an organizational meeting at the City University of New York.  Robert Rieber and Howard Gruber were organizers of this first meeting.

 

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