Obituary: Dalbir Bindra (1922-1980).

Presents an obituary for Dalbir Bindra (1922-1980), who used all his theoretical and experimental skills to examine the concomitance of neural and behavioral events. As a psychologist in the classic tradition, he was interested not only in sensation, perception, cognition, motivation, and emotion, but also in how the processes in these various domains relate and interact one with another. Eventually, his research interests expanded to include psychopharmacology and neuropsychology. Throughout his career, Bindra was active in psychology in Canada and played an important role in its growth. One of his interests was financial support for research in psychology, a topic on which he wrote reports and published articles. In addition, he was a well respected teacher and enjoyed a rich and textured life. His sudden death at the age of 58 was a misfortune to the discipline of psychology as well as to family and friends. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

C. Roger Myers (1906–1985).

Charles Roger Myers died on June 5, 1985, in his home city of Toronto, bringing to a close a life of distinguished service to psychology in Canada and abroad. In the psychological organizations of Canada, Myers was a prominent figure. During the 1950s he played a significant role in bringing about enabling legislation in Ontario that resulted in the establishment of the Ontario Board of Examiners in Psychology (OBEP). He was the first chair of OBEP from 1960 to 1965, leading it through its most difficult years. He was also a founding member of the Canadian Psychological Association (CPA) in 1940, its secretary and, in 1950, its president. Later, from 1970 to 1978 he was CPA's first executive officer. He was also a charter member of the Ontario Psychological Association in 1947 and its first president. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

Obituary: Arthur A. Lumsdaine (1913–1989).

Arthur Allen Lumsdaine, who died on May 1, 1989, made major contributions to social and educational psychology. He was part of the post-World War II wave of experimental psychologists who moved psychology in new, widely applicable directions. In social psychology, he helped open up the experimental investigation of attitude change. Later in his career, he recognized the potential of teaching machines and programmed instruction and furthered their development. Art was a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, as well as of the American Psychological Association (APA). He served as a member of the APA's Board of Scientific Affairs (1967-1970), was President of the Division of Educational Psychology (1968-1969), and was an Associate Editor of Contemporary Psychology for eight years. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

John Peter Zubek.

One of Canada's most distinguished psychologists, Dr. John P. Zubek, died at Winnipeg on August 24, 1974. He was the recognized authority in his own field of research, sensory deprivation, and was admired and respected by his students and by his colleagues everywhere. He was author or editor of six books and he published over a hundred papers. He was an important influence in the development of psychology in Canada as an experimental science. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

The reaction of a participant observer.

Comments on an article by Conway about clinical psychology training in Canada (see record 1985-10567-001). The current author addresses issues regarding accreditation standards for applied psychology training programs in Canada. He firmly believes that the Canadian Psychological Association should develop a set of criteria for applied rather than clinical programs, in order to remain competitive with programs in the United States. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

Charles Roger Myers (1906-1985).

Presents an obituary for Charles Roger Myers, who died in Toronto on June 5, 1985. Roger Myers shared the distinction of being one of the first two psychology internes employed by the Ontario Hospital Service. He served as the first Consulting Psychologist for the Ontario Department of Health from 1930 to 1963. He was the first person in charge of research at the Toronto Psychiatric Hospital before World War II. He was a founding member of the Canadian Psychological Association in 1940, its secretary, its president (1950-1951), its first executive officer (1970-1978) and its archivist. He was a man who left as his ultimate legacy a strong, vigorous, and unified department that strives to contribute to the creation and dissemination of psychological knowledge not only in Canada but in the world. In all of these ways his life has touched thousands of others. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

Richard Haig Walters.

Presents an obituary for Dr. Richard Haig Walters whose death on December 27th, 1967 shocked and saddened his many friends. Dr. Walters was the first permanent chairman of the Department of Psychology at the University of Waterloo; a director of the Canadian Psychological Association and a Fellow of the American Psychological Association and the British Psychological Association. In the year prior to his death, he was Distinguished Visiting Scholar at Oxford University. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

Renewing the faith.

Reviews the book, The brain's mind. A neuroscience perspective on the mind-body problem by Dalbir Bindra, James A. Anders, Mario A. Bunge, John P. Flynn, Peter M. Milner, and Theordore L. Sourkes (1980). Today's Neuroscience perspective on the mind-body problem is revealed unflinchingly in this little collection of essays. It is a somewhat dry academic sort of fundamentalist revival, but it comes under an assertive title and after a bit of shuffling around gets to the serious business of individual testimonies to the faith. It is not clear to the reviewer how or why an edited collection of essays from a conference becomes a book 'by' and 'with'. Perhaps it has something to do with marketing. But, clearly, Bindra was the boss and his conception for the book was to take stock of recent developments, especially in Neuroscience, to re-evaluate the arguments surrounding the mind-body problem, and to illustrate the basis of a shared optimism that this ancient problem is beginning to clarify. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

Robert Bruce Ammons (1920-1999): Obituary.

Presents an obituary for Robert Bruce Ammons. Ammons was a researcher, professor, and founder of Perceptual and Motor Skills and Psychological Reports. He dedicated his life to encouraging scientific originality. He was a licensed clinician, a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, Sigma Xi, and several divisions of the American Psychological Association (Experimental Psychology, Experimental Analysis of Behavior, Clinical Psychology, and History of Psychology), and he was a member of more than 30 national and international professional organizations. He held numerous offices in the Montana Psychological Association from 1958 to 1985, including being the president and secretary of the Montana Psychological Association's Internal Certification Board. His teaching centered on the history of psychology as a modern science, the psychology of the scientist, techniques of research strategy and theory construction, child development, and aesthetics. Ammons passed away in 1999. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

1984 CPA Award for Distinguished contributions to psychology as a science.

Presents a citation for Wallace Lambert, the 1984 recipient of the Canadian Psychological Association's Award for Distinguished Contributions to Psychology as a Science. Wallace Lambert, a professor of psychology at McGill University, has served as the Canadian Psychological Association as president in 1970 and again as honorary president in 1982/83. He was awarded a Queen's Jubilee Medal in 1977, and has been elected to the National Academy of Education of the United States and the Royal Society of Canada. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

Le prix Donald O. Hebb honorant une contribution hors-pair à la psychologie en tant que science.

Announces that the 1987 recipient of the Donald O. Hebb Award for Distinguished Contributions to Psychology as a Science is Dr. Fergus I. M. Craik, Professor of Psychology at the University of Toronto. Professor Craik has received many honours. Dr. Craik is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada, the Canadian Psychological Association, the American Psychological Association, and the Society of Experimental Psychologists. He has received Killam and Guggenheim Fellowships, and the Certificate of Merit for Research in Aging, from the Ontario Psychological Foundation. He was editor of the Journal of Verbal Learning and Verbal Behavior from 1980 to 1984, and on the editorial boards of many other journals. He has been Chairman of the Board of Governors of the Psychonomic Society and remains a Member of the Board, a member of the Advisory Council of the International Association for the Study of Attention and Performance, and a Councillor of the Royal Canadian Institute. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

Robert Ward Leeper (1904-1986).

Robert Ward Leeper grew up near Braddock, Pennsylvania, a steel town where most of his classmates and friends were from the families of recent immigrants from many European countries. From childhood on, Leeper assumed that he was to contribute to the world's welfare. He chose his graduate school as carefully as he had chosen work experiences and entered Clark University in 1927. He received his MA degree in 1928 and his PhD in 1930. In 1930, at the depth of the Great Depression, Leeper was successful in finding a position at the University of Arkansas, where he spent the next three years. In 1933- 1934 he worked with Karl Lashley in Chicago on a National Research Council fellowship. In 1937, Leeper settled down at the University of Oregon, where he was to remain for the rest of his life. His contributions to psychology included ideas that were precursors of the cognitive learning theories that prevail today and a continuing attack on the concept of emotion as disorganized behavior. In addition, Leeper served as president of the Oregon Psychological Association, the Western Psychological Association, Division 1 of the American Psychological Association, and as a member of various committees and boards. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

Park Olof Davidson: 1937-1980.

The distinguished career of Park Davidson came to a tragic end when he and his wife, Sheena, were killed in an automobile accident on December 21, 1980. The impact of this shattering event is not yet fully comprehended by the community of psychologists in Canada, but we know how sorely his friendship, inspiration, and guidance will be missed. Park had served as Editor of the Canadian Journal of Behavioural Science since 1974. Park enjoyed many other distinctions as a professional psychologist, academician, and research scientist. He served a distinguished term as President of the Canadian Psychological Association. Still a young man, he had already been President of the Psychological Association of Alberta and Chairman of the Advisory Council of Provincial Associations of Psychology, in addition to providing wise counsel for many other professional organizations, government agencies, community organizations, and universities. As well as being editor of several of these volumes, Park was a vigorous research scientist whose interests and publications ranged through stress management, pain, alcoholism, parent-infant interaction, and programme evaluation. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

Opinicon II: The state of the discipline review.

Informs that since the autumn of 1981, a growing group of psychologists have been carefully considering the current state of the discipline of psychology in Canada. The goal is an invited conference that would reflect on the major issues affecting psychology today and that would make recommendations to the Canadian Psychological Association and, indeed, to all Canadian psychology regarding the steps to be taken in the future to enhance the growth and development of psychology as a science and as a profession. Earlier state of the discipline reviews are briefly described and the terms of reference for the current project, Opinicon II, are presented. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

John Henry Jackson (1922-2008).

John Henry Jackson was born September 21, 1922, in Macon, Georgia, and died May 14, 2008. He received his bachelor's degree from Milwaukee State Teachers College (1946, now the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee), and his master's (1948) and doctoral (1957) degrees in educational psychology from the University of Chicago. John served the Milwaukee Public Schools as a school psychologist from 1962 until his retirement in 1989. He was also a founding member and former officer of the Wisconsin School of Professional Psychology, a member of the Wisconsin Psychological Association and, in 1981-1982, president of the Milwaukee Area Psychological Association. As a licensed psychologist in Wisconsin, he was also a member of the state examining board (1974-1980). John was a member of the American Psychological Association (APA) since 1963 and a fellow since 1982. During his career, he published on topics related to school psychology interventions, the development and importance of school psychology, and minority affairs relevant to schoolchildren and psychologists. John Jackson was among the early and distinguished African American school psychologists. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

Prix Donald O. Hebb honorant une contribution remarquable à la psychologie en tant que science.

Announces that Dr, Adrien Pinard is the recipient of the 1991 Donald O. Hebb Award for Distinguished Contribution to Psychology as a Science. Dr Pinard is one of the most distinguished researchers in Canadian psychology. He is former president of the Canadian Psychological Association, a member of the Royal Society of Canada, and winner of the Leon Gerin-Lajoie award, the highest distinction accorded by the Quebec government in social sciences. After 32 years teaching in the department of Psychology at the University of Montreal, he is presently professor emeritus at the Department of Psychology of the University of Quebec at Montreal. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

Lightner Witmer: Little-known founder of clinical psychology.

Lightner Witmer inaugurated the first psychological clinic in 1896, and he also took a number of other crucial steps in establishing and defining the field of clinical psychology. Witmer was one of the early group of Americans who took their doctorates under Wilhelm Wundt. He was a charter member of the American Psychological Association and the last to die. Clearly, he is an important figure in the history of psychology, yet relatively little biographical information about him has been available. This article summarizes his life and career, examines the beginnings of his clinic, and evaluates the significance of his contributions. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2011 APA, all rights reserved)     

Edward C. Webster (1909-1989).

Presents an obituary for Edward C. Webster, recipient of the 1982 Distinguished Award for Contributions to Canadian Psychology as a Profession and Professor Emeritus of McGill University. Webster died on February 15, 1989. His career was dedicated to the application of psychological principles to real life problems, not just in practice but in research, in administration, and in service to his profession and community. Although committed to the development of applied psychology generally, Ed's major impact on theory and research was in industrial psychology, particularly in personnel selection. Like many other practitioners, he made extensive use of the interview as an information gathering technique, upon which recommendations to hire were based. Another major contribution he made to Canadian professional psychology was undoubtedly the role he played in the Couchiching Conference on the training of applied psychologists, which culminated in the book he wrote in 1967, The Couchiching Report: Training in Professional Psychology in Canada. Ed Webster will be long remembered for his commitment to and promotion of applied psychology at McGill and in Canada, for his contributions to the literature in personnel selection, and for his support of the work of students and colleagues. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

Gold Medal Award for Life Achievement in the Application of Psychology: Edwin A. Fleishman.

The 2004 Gold Medal Award for Life Achievement in the Application of Psychology was awarded to Edwin A. Fleishman, for his significant contributions to the science and applications of psychology, which he has sustained over his remarkable career. He is cited for his research, which has had a profound influence on our understanding of human capabilities, their measurement, their development, and their application in the world of work. Through his many influential leadership roles, as president of the International Association of Applied Psychology and three divisions of the American Psychological Association, and as editor of the Journal of Applied Psychology, he has helped shape our profession. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

Obituary: George W. Albee (1921-2006).

Presents an obituary for George W. Albee, a past President of the American Psychological Association (APA) and lifelong advocate of the importance of social change to deal effectively with mental disorders. His impact on psychology is reflected in the many awards he received in his lifetime, which included the APA Distinguished Professional Contribution Award in 1975, the American Psychological Foundation Gold Medal Award for Life Achievement in Psychology in the Public Interest in 1993, and the Lifetime Achievement Award in Applied Preventive Psychology in 1997. With his passing, psychology lost one of the staunchest advocates of prevention as the most important approach to dealing with psychological ills. He was also a lifelong advocate for the disenfranchised. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)