Eleanor Jack Gibson: Distinguished Scientific Contribution Award.

Acknowledges the presentation of the American Psychological Association (APA) 1968 Distinguished Scientific Contribution Award to Eleanor Jack Gibson. The citation reads: "For distinguished studies of perceptual learning and perceptual development. Following participation in and guidance of studies which have significantly advanced our understanding of depth perception in infants and young organisms, she has turned to the systematic analysis of reading. Her analysis and experimental study of the discriminatory and decoding aspects, as well as semantic and syntactical features of reading have indicated what must be learned. Her analysis of the learning process itself has delineated how reading is acquired. Always the experimentalist, she has elucidated the steps that must precede application in formal instruction. By so doing, she has imaginatively shown how to bridge the gap from laboratory to classroom." A biography and a listing of the awardee's scientific writings are also included. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

James Emmett Birren: Distinguished Scientific Contribution Award.

Acknowledges the presentation of the American Psychological Association (APA) 1968 Distinguished Scientific Contribution Award to James Emmett Birren. The citation reads: "For his internationally recognized leadership in the field of behavior gerontology, based upon years of experimental research on neurological, sensory, perceptual, and thinking functions. He has particularly emphasized the analysis of speed and accuracy and their physiological correlates in relation to age in the elderly. His work has contributed support for the hypothesis that reduced input of information is an important key to much apparent intellectual decline in the aged." A biography and a listing of the awardee's scientific writings are also included. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

Floyd Henry Allport: Distinguished Scientific Contribution Award.

Presents the 1965 American Psychological Association Distinguished Scientific Contribution Award to Floyd Henry Allport. The citation reads: "For leading the way to an understanding of behavior at both the organismic and the collective levels. Despite the unmatched complexities of the phenomena, his proposals are meaningful and verifiable. The main goal he has set before us is to see clearly the way events structure themselves within individuals and between them. The establishment of quantitative relationships between variables is seen as a means but not an end. He has followed less travelled paths, and along the way has developed fresh approaches to the study of conformity, attitudes, personality, and institutional processes. His students have been strengthened by his friendship and challenged by his towering standards of scholarship, experimentation, and exposition." Biographical information is also provided, along with a list of the award winner's scientific writings. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

Distinguished Scientific Contribution Awards: 1968.

Presents the Awards for Distinguished Scientific Contribution, given by the American Psychological Association at the annual convention. The 1968 award recipients are James E. Birren (behavioral gerontology), Eleanor J. Gibson (perceptual learning and development) and Muzafer Sherif (interpresonal behavior and psychophysics). Included for each recipient are the citation text, biography and bibliography of scientific publications. The recipients for 1956 through 1967 are listed. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

Fritz Heider: Distinguished Scientific Contribution Award.

Presents the 1965 American Psychological Association Distinguished Scientific Contribution Award to Fritz Heider. The citation reads: "For his trailblazing thoughts about the fundamentals of perception, and for seeing problems that others did not recognize. Long ago he showed us the puzzle of the relations of things to their stimuli. Since then he has been thinking about persons and their acts, interpersonal behavior and harmony between persons, displaying in his own theory a tolerant encouragement of other theorists. Working within a long view of history and a wide view of science, he has provided grist for the mills of many experimenters and polish for the theoretical machinery of many thinkers." Biographical information is also provided, along with a list of the award winner's scientific writings. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

Solomon Eliot Asch: Distinguished Scientific Contribution Award.

It is the pleasant and impressive custom of the American Psychological Association each year to present distinguished scientific contribution awards to three of its outstanding members. A Distinguished Scientific Contribution Award was given to Solomon Eliot Asch in 1967 for the research he has inspired, his independence, and his view of man. His work on forming impressions of personality and on group conformity pressures have each been among the most imitated research designs of our generation. A dozen other of his diverse studies have stood a chance of being comparably seminal. It took the least conformant of social psychologists to defend conformity and to point out that an essential feature of social life is the willingness to trust the observations and reports of others. Without sentimentality, he consistently has cautioned psychology against deliberately oversimplifying its theoretical models and denying the existence of data which is inconvenient to tally, insisting always that there be humanity in psychology's image of man. A brief biography is provided followed by a list of scientific publications. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

Distinguished Scientific Contribution Awards 1971.

The Awards for Distinguished Scientific Contribution are presented by the American Psychological Association at the annual convention. The awards for 1971, along with those for the preceding years since the establishment of the custom, are listed here. The Award citations, biographies, and scientific publications of the 1971 Award-winners are also provided. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

Distinguished Professional Contribution Award for 1976.

The Distinguished Professional Contribution Award is presented annually to a member of the American Psychological Association who has advanced psychology as a profession by distinguished contributions to knowledge or practice, subject to the following limitations: (a) members of the award committee, former recipients of the award, the President and the President-elect of APA are ineligible; (b) the committee shall seek diversity in selecting recipients, avoiding as far as possible the consecutive selection of more than one person representing a specialized topic, a specific material, a given method, a particular application, or a specific specialized service. This year there were two recipients: John C. Flanagan and David Shakow. Both winners received $1,000. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

Distinguished Professional Contribution Award for 1977.

The 1977 Award for Distinguished Professional Contribution was presented to George Katona at the Annual Convention of the American Psychological Association in San Francisco, California. Virginia Bennett, the Chair of the Board of Professional Affairs, presented the award. The members of the Committee on Professional Awards are C. Lee Winder (Chair), Allan G. Barclay, Kenneth B. Clark, Marie Skodak-Crissey, Robert M. Guion, Bernard Kalinkowitz, Asher Pacht, and Jeanne Phillips. The awardees for all of the years since the establishment of the custom are: 1972 Carl R. Rogers; 1973 David Wechsler; 1974 Noble H. Kelley; 1975 George W. Albee; 1976 John C. Flanagan and David Shakow; and 1977 George Katona. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

Nancy Bayley: American Psychological Association Distinguished Scientific Contribution Award.

Notes that Nancy Bayley is one of the recipients of the 1966 American Psychological Association Distinguished Scientific Contribution Award. Her citation reads: "For the enterprise, pertinacity, and insight with which she has studied human growth over long segments of the life cycle. With consummate skill in the use of available but imperfect instruments and with respect and sensitiveness for her subjects, she has rigorously recorded their physical, intellectual, emotional, and social development from birth to middle life. Her studies have enriched psychology with enduring contributions to the measurement and meaning of intelligence, and she traced important strands in the skein of factors involved in psychological development. Her participation in a number of major programs of developmental research is a paradigm of the conjoint efforts which are essential in a field whose problems span the generations." A personal biography is also included, along with a listing of her scientific writings. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

Distinguished Scientific Contribution Awards: 1969.

The Awards for Distinguished Scientific Contribution are presented by the American Psychological Association at its annual convention. This document presents the awards for this year (1969), along with those for the preceding years since the establishment of the custom, beginning with 1956. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

Ernest Ropiequet Hilgard: Distinguished Scientific Contribution Award.

A Distinguished Scientific Contribution Award was given to Ernest Ropienquet Hilgard by the American Psychological Association for his impressive range of experimental and theoretical work on learning, hypnosis, and education. His research on learning has contributed to topics as diverse as eyelid conditioning, motor learning, and the role of understanding in transfer of training. His studies of hypnosis have extended our knowledge, not only of hypnosis itself, but of psychophysics, motivation, and personality. He has been the definitive interpreter of learning theory to a generation of psychologists, and a leader in exploring the relations of the psychology of learning to other fields. His analyses of the relations between psychology and education have contributed importantly to narrowing the gap between the two fields. As researcher, interpreter, and teacher he has been a scholar in the broadest sense. A brief biography is followed by a list of scientific publications. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

David Shakow: Distinguished Scientific Contribution Awards for 1975.

This document presents the citation awarded to David Shakow, recipient of the 1975 APA Award for Distinguished Scientific Contributions. A brief biography and a selected bibliography of Shakow's research accompany the citation. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

Clarence Henry Graham: American Psychological Association Distinguished Scientific Contribution Award.

Reports that Clarence Henry Graham is one of the recipients of the 1966 American Psychological Association Distinguished Scientific Contribution Award. His citation reads: "For his studies of afferent and central mechanisms of behavior and of psychological methods. His early work with collaborators led to the first recording of electrical activity in single nerve fibers in the visual system. His behavioral analyses of the psychophysical methods, his quantitative measurements of the acquisition, extinction, and spontaneous recovery of the simple running response, his studies of area-intensity and intensity-time relations in visual psychophysics, his investigations of space perception, particularly stereoscopic cues and monocular movement parallax, and, most recently, his research on color vision and color blindness are models of effective, quantitative research. Singly they are important; in toto they are an impressive contribution to human enlightenment." A personal biography is also included, along with a listing of his scientific writings. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

Distinguished Professional Contribution Award for 1972.

The first Award for Distinguished Professional Contribution was presented to Carl Rogers at the Annual Convention of the American Psychological Association in Honolulu on September 2, 1972. George Albee, Past President of APA, made the presentation. The Distinguished Professional Contribution Award will be presented annually to a member of the American Psychological Association who has advanced psychology as a profession by distinguished contributions to knowledge or practice. Rogers' award citation, biography, and bibliography are provided. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

Distinguished Scientific Contribution Awards for 1972.

The Distinguished Scientific Contribution Awards are presented each year by the American Psychological Association at the Annual Convention. The award winners for 1972 are Edwin E. Ghiselli, Dorothea Jameson, Leo Hurvich, and Pattrick Suppes. Each award winner is recognized with a check for $1,000 and an engrossed citation of his or her formal contributions to the development of scientific psychology. Further, these psychologists have agreed, in accordance with established custom, to present addresses on some phase of their scientific work at the 1973 Convention. The award citations, personal biographies, and professional writings of the award winners are presented. Additionally, a listing of award recipients from preceding years is provided. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

Distinguished Professional Contribution Award for 1973.

Presents the winner of the American Psychological Association Distinguished Professional Contribution Award. David Wechsler received his second Award for Distinguished Professional Contribution at the Annual Convention of the American Psychological Association in Montreal on August 28, 1973. Brent N. Baxter, Chair of the Committee on Professional Awards, made the presentation. Other members of the Committee are Theodore Blau, Edward Loveland, Alfred Marrow, and Edward S. Bordin. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

Roger N. Shepard: Distinguished Scientific Contribution Award.

Recognizes the receipt of the American Psychological Association's 1976 Distinguished Scientific Contribution Award by Roger N. Shepard. The award citation reads: "For his pioneering work in cognitive structures, especially his invention of nonmetric multidimensional scaling, which has provided the social sciences with a tool of enormous power for uncovering metric structures from ordinal data on similarities. In addition, his novel studies in recognition memory and pitch perception, and his latest innovative work on mental rotations--operations that may well underlie our ability to read and to recognize objects--have all contributed materially to our understanding of cognitive processes. His style of research exhibits a beautiful combination of depth and simplicity." A biography and a listing of the recipient's scientific writings are also included. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)