Education, employment history, teaching

Institutions and degrees

A.B.—Indiana University, 1951

M.A.—University of Illinois, 1956

Ph.D.—University of Illinois, 1958

Also studied: Stanford University, 1948-49, University of Colorado, summer, 1950, University of Minnesota, summer, 1951, University of Chicago, 1951-52, Harvard University, 1952-53, Columbia University, summer, 1955.

Employment history

1953-55—U.S. Army, Assistant Psychologist

1955-58—Teaching Assistant and Research Assistant, Department of Psychology, University of Illinois, Urbana, Illinois

1958-60—U.S. Public Health Service Postdoctoral Research Fellowship, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington

1960-63—Assistant Professor of Psychology, George Peabody College, Nashville, Tennessee

1963-64—Research Director in Child Psychology, University of Mississippi, Oxford, Mississippi

1964-67—Associate Professor of Psychology, East Carolina University, Greenville, North Carolina

1967-93—Associate Professor of Psychology (1967-76) and Professor of Psychology (1976-93), Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada

1993—Retired from teaching

University teaching

Undergraduate courses (East Carolina University, Carleton University)

Introductory General Psychology*
Advanced General Psychology
Psychology of Learning*
Introduction to Statistics*
Introduction to Research Methods*
Psychological Testing
Child Development
Correlational Statistics
Seminar in Human Assessment
Developmental Psychology
Psychology of Learning and Cognition*
Differential Psychology

Graduate courses (George Peabody College, East Carolina University, Carleton University)

Psychology of Learning
Seminar in Measurement*
Research Design
Logic and Scientific Method in Psychology*
Advanced Statistics
Apparatus Design
Seminar in Mental Retardation

*these courses taught frequently over many years

"I didn't really begin to learn anything until after I had finished my studies."—Anatole France

"Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten."—B.F. Skinner

"Our knowledge can only be finite, while our ignorance must necessarily be infinite."—Karl Popper

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