Ulric Neisser, the Glossary
Ulric Richard Gustav Neisser (December 8, 1928 – February 17, 2012) was a German-American psychologist, Cornell University professor, and member of the US National Academy of Sciences. He has been referred to as the "father of cognitive psychology".[1]
Table of Contents
50 relations: Abraham Maslow, American Psychological Association, Assassination of John F. Kennedy, Baseball, Behaviorism, Cognitive psychology, Cornell University, Developmental psychology, Ecological validity, Eleanor J. Gibson, Emory University, False Memory Syndrome Foundation, Flashbulb memory, Flynn effect, Germany, Gestalt psychology, Hans Wallach, Harvard Department of Social Relations, Harvard University, Henry Gleitman, Human intelligence, Information processing (psychology), Intelligence: Knowns and Unknowns, Ithaca, New York, James J. Gibson, John Dean, Kiel, Latin honors, MIT Lincoln Laboratory, Naïve realism, National Academy of Sciences, Oliver Selfridge, Parkinson's disease, Province of Schleswig-Holstein, Psychology, Psychophysics, Review of General Psychology, Richard Nixon, Robyn Fivush, Sigma Xi, Sociology, Space Shuttle Challenger disaster, SS Hamburg (1925), Swarthmore College, The Bell Curve, The New York Times, United States, Watergate scandal, Wolfgang Köhler, 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake.
- German cognitive neuroscientists
Abraham Maslow
Abraham Harold Maslow (April 1, 1908 – June 8, 1970) was an American psychologist who created Maslow's hierarchy of needs, a theory of psychological health predicated on fulfilling innate human needs in priority, culminating in self-actualization.
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American Psychological Association
The American Psychological Association (APA) is the main professional organization of psychologists in the United States, and the largest psychological association in the world.
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Assassination of John F. Kennedy
On November 22, 1963, John F. Kennedy, the 35th president of the United States, was assassinated while riding in a presidential motorcade through Dealey Plaza in Dallas, Texas.
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Baseball
Baseball is a bat-and-ball sport played between two teams of nine players each, taking turns batting and fielding.
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Behaviorism
Behaviorism (also spelled behaviourism) is a systematic approach to understand the behavior of humans and other animals.
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Cognitive psychology
Cognitive psychology is the scientific study of mental processes such as attention, language use, memory, perception, problem solving, creativity, and reasoning.
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Cornell University
Cornell University is a private Ivy League land-grant research university based in Ithaca, New York.
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Developmental psychology
Developmental psychology is the scientific study of how and why humans grow, change, and adapt across the course of their lives.
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Ecological validity
In the behavioral sciences, ecological validity is often used to refer to the judgment of whether a given study's variables and conclusions (often collected in lab) are sufficiently relevant to its population (e.g. the "real world" context).
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Eleanor J. Gibson
Eleanor Jack Gibson (7 December 1910 – 30 December 2002) was an American psychologist who focused on reading development and perceptual learning in infants.
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Emory University
Emory University is a private research university in Atlanta, Georgia.
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False Memory Syndrome Foundation
--> The False Memory Syndrome Foundation (FMSF) was a nonprofit organization founded in 1992 and dissolved in late 2019.
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Flashbulb memory
A flashbulb memory is a vivid, long-lasting memory about a surprising or shocking event that has happened in the past.
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Flynn effect
The Flynn effect is the substantial and long-sustained increase in both fluid and crystallized intelligence test scores that were measured in many parts of the world over the 20th century, named after researcher James Flynn (1934–2020).
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Germany
Germany, officially the Federal Republic of Germany (FRG), is a country in Central Europe.
Gestalt psychology
Gestalt psychology, gestaltism, or configurationism is a school of psychology and a theory of perception that emphasises the processing of entire patterns and configurations, and not merely individual components.
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Hans Wallach
Hans Wallach (November 28, 1904 – February 5, 1998) was a German-American experimental psychologist whose research focused on perception and learning.
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The Department of Social Relations for Interdisciplinary Social Science Studies, more commonly known as the "Department of Social Relations", was an interdisciplinary collaboration among three of the social science departments at Harvard University (anthropology, psychology, and sociology) beginning in 1946.
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Harvard University
Harvard University is a private Ivy League research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
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Henry Gleitman
Henry Gleitman (January 4, 1925 – September 2, 2015) was a professor of psychology at the University of Pennsylvania.
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Human intelligence
Human intelligence is the intellectual capability of humans, which is marked by complex cognitive feats and high levels of motivation and self-awareness.
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Information processing (psychology)
In cognitive psychology, information processing is an approach to the goal of understanding human thinking that treats cognition as essentially computational in nature, with the mind being the software and the brain being the hardware.
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Intelligence: Knowns and Unknowns
Intelligence: Knowns and Unknowns is a report about scientific findings on human intelligence, issued in 1995 by a task force created by the Board of Scientific Affairs of the American Psychological Association (APA) following the publication of The Bell Curve and the scholarly debate that followed it.
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Ithaca, New York
Ithaca is a city in and the county seat of Tompkins County, New York, United States.
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James J. Gibson
James Jerome Gibson (January 27, 1904 – December 11, 1979) was an American psychologist and is considered to be one of the most important contributors to the field of visual perception.
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John Dean
John Wesley Dean III (born October 14, 1938) is an American attorney who served as White House Counsel for U.S. President Richard Nixon from July 1970 until April 1973.
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Kiel
Kiel is the capital and most populous city in the northern German state of Schleswig-Holstein, with a population of 246,243 (2021).
Latin honors
Latin honours are a system of Latin phrases used in some colleges and universities to indicate the level of distinction with which an academic degree has been earned.
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MIT Lincoln Laboratory
The MIT Lincoln Laboratory, located in Lexington, Massachusetts, is a United States Department of Defense federally funded research and development center chartered to apply advanced technology to problems of national security.
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Naïve realism
In philosophy of perception and epistemology, naïve realism (also known as direct realism or perceptual realism) is the idea that the senses provide us with direct awareness of objects as they really are.
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National Academy of Sciences
The National Academy of Sciences (NAS) is a United States nonprofit, non-governmental organization.
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Oliver Selfridge
Oliver Gordon Selfridge (10 May 1926 – 3 December 2008) was a mathematician and computer scientist who pioneered the early foundations of modern artificial intelligence.
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Parkinson's disease
Parkinson's disease (PD), or simply Parkinson's, is a long-term neurodegenerative disease of mainly the central nervous system that affects both the motor and non-motor systems of the body.
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Province of Schleswig-Holstein
The Province of Schleswig-Holstein (Provinz Schleswig-Holstein) was a province of the Kingdom of Prussia (from 1868 to 1918) and the Free State of Prussia (from 1918 to 1946).
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Psychology
Psychology is the scientific study of mind and behavior.
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Psychophysics
Psychophysics quantitatively investigates the relationship between physical stimuli and the sensations and perceptions they produce.
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Review of General Psychology
Review of General Psychology is the quarterly scientific journal of the American Psychological Association Division 1: The Society for General Psychology.
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Richard Nixon
Richard Milhous Nixon (January 9, 1913April 22, 1994) was an American politician and lawyer who served as the 37th president of the United States from 1969 to 1974.
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Robyn Fivush
Robyn Fivush is the Samuel Candler Dobbs Professor of Psychology and Director of the Institute for the Liberal Arts at Emory University, College of Arts and Sciences in Atlanta, Georgia.
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Sigma Xi
Sigma Xi, The Scientific Research Honor Society (ΣΞ) is a non-profit honor society for scientists and engineers.
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Sociology
Sociology is the scientific study of human society that focuses on society, human social behavior, patterns of social relationships, social interaction, and aspects of culture associated with everyday life.
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Space Shuttle Challenger disaster
On January 28, 1986, the Space Shuttle ''Challenger'' broke apart 73 seconds into its flight, killing all seven crew members aboard.
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SS Hamburg (1925)
SS Hamburg was a German ocean liner owned by the Hamburg America Line, built by the Blohm & Voss of Hamburg, Germany, and launched in 1925.
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Swarthmore College
Swarthmore College is a private liberal arts college in Swarthmore, Pennsylvania.
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The Bell Curve
The Bell Curve: Intelligence and Class Structure in American Life is a 1994 book by psychologist Richard J. Herrnstein and political scientist Charles Murray, in which the authors argue that human intelligence is substantially influenced by both inherited and environmental factors and that it is a better predictor of many personal outcomes, including financial income, job performance, birth out of wedlock, and involvement in crime than are an individual's parental socioeconomic status.
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The New York Times
The New York Times (NYT) is an American daily newspaper based in New York City.
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United States
The United States of America (USA or U.S.A.), commonly known as the United States (US or U.S.) or America, is a country primarily located in North America.
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Watergate scandal
The Watergate scandal was a major political controversy in the United States during the presidency of Richard Nixon from 1972 to 1974, ultimately resulting in Nixon's resignation.
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Wolfgang Köhler
Wolfgang Köhler (21 January 1887 – 11 June 1967) was a German psychologist and phenomenologist who, like Max Wertheimer and Kurt Koffka, contributed to the creation of Gestalt psychology. Ulric Neisser and Wolfgang Köhler are Emigrants from Nazi Germany to the United States.
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1989 Loma Prieta earthquake
The 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake occurred on California's Central Coast on October 17 at local time.
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See also
German cognitive neuroscientists
- Anelis Kaiser
- Angela D. Friederici
- Gregor Schöner
- Hans Helmut Kornhuber
- Lüder Deecke
- Ludwig Büchner
- Sigrid Schmitz
- Ulric Neisser
References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ulric_Neisser
Also known as Ulric Gustav Neisser, Ulrich Neisser.