Psychology

Featured among the 13 entries is information about pioneers of American psychology, the field of gifted education, research of the emotional development of children, the academic field of adult development and aging; developers of a model for classification of mental abilities, a behavioral learning theory based on stimulus-response associations, a non-verbal assessment of learning aptitude designed for deaf children, applied psychology; founder of one of first laboratories in experimental psychology open to undergraduates, contributor to scientific study of memory and learning, theoretician who presented basis for Head Start Program, and best selling author on personal and family themes in latter half of 1990s; two members of National Academy of Sciences.

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