Son, father, student and professor, experimental psychologist, clinician and historian, immigrant, mountaineer . . .

2020 ◽  
Vol 23 (3) ◽  
pp. 285-287
Author(s):  
Wolfgang Schönpflug
1986 ◽  
Vol 10 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 1-13 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael McCloskey ◽  
Howard Egeth ◽  
Judith McKenna

Author(s):  
Paul Valliere

In his biography of the eminent Orthodox theologian Georges Florovsky, Andrew Blane recounts a conversation in which Florovsky reminisced about one of his mentors at the University of Odessa, the experimental psychologist N. N. Lange (1858–1921). A convinced positivist, Lange offered the budding religious thinker the following advice:...


Science ◽  
1959 ◽  
Vol 129 (3360) ◽  
pp. 1410-1412 ◽  
Author(s):  
L. CARMICHAEL

Author(s):  
A. Irving ◽  
T. S. Bowles

Rapid advances in the performance of motor vehicles have emphasized the limitations on the abilities of drivers. Attempts to define and measure abilities relevant to driving tasks are illustrated with reference to perception of speed, decision making and tests of basic visual abilities. Some of the special problems of the applied experimental psychologist become evident in the description of these studies. Many areas of research relevant to driving justify further extensive research effort.


2018 ◽  
Vol 64 ◽  
pp. 299-316 ◽  
Author(s):  
John M. Pearce

Nicholas Mackintosh was an experimental psychologist whose principal goal was to understand the basic mechanisms of learning and cognition, largely through research with animals. The two textbooks that he wrote on this topic synthesized a vast body of research and set it within a theoretical context of association formation that has remained dominant for over 40 years. He developed a formal theory of the relationship between attention and learning that had an immediate impact and can be expected to be the foremost theory of its kind for many years to come. He was also a prolific experimenter, whose ingenious experiments were remarkable for the theoretical insights they offered into the mechanisms of learning in a wide range of species. Towards the end of his career, he developed an interest in the measurement of human intelligence. The textbook that followed from this interest is one of the most authoritative ever written on the topic.


2005 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 5-20 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mikkel Borch-Jacobsen

This paper is concerned with hypnosis and the methodological ‘anxiety’ (Devereux) which inevitably affects the hypnotist, whether experimental psychologist or therapist: what if the phenomena observed during hypnosis were only an effect of compliance with his own expectations, demands and suggestions? What if the hypnotized simulated hypnosis solely to please him? From Charcot and Richet to Martin Orne, by way of Bernheim or Freud, the response of researchers to this disquieting question has always been the same: the subject cannot be simulating, because he is hypnotized, asleep, unconscious. The hypothesis of a psychic unconscious (or of unconsciousness), which determined the very concept of hypnosis from the second half of the nineteenth century onwards is nothing more than a postulate required to guarantee the objectivity of hypnotic and, more broadly, psychological phenomena, by preventing the latter from being seen as simple artifacts of the experimental or clinical situation. The present paper examines several historical avatars of this postulate, including psychoanalysis, and proposes that it be abandoned in favour of a conception of psychology and psychotherapy which is constructivist and no longer objectivist, recognizing the artifactual character of psychic productions instead of denying it.


2009 ◽  
Vol 32 (5) ◽  
pp. 450-451 ◽  
Author(s):  
Iris Berent

AbstractEvans & Levinson (E&L) are right to hold theories of language accountable for language diversity, but typological data alone cannot determine the structure of mental phonological grammars. Grammatical universals are nonetheless testable by formal and experimental methods, and the growing research in experimental phonology demonstrates the viability of a comparative experimental evaluation of the Universal Grammar (UG) hypothesis.


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