Ulric Neisser

Ulric Neisser (born 8 December 1928) is an American psychologist.

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8 December - 1928 - Psychologist

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Born in Kiel, Germany, he moved with his family to the United States in 1931. Neisser earned a bachelor's degree from Harvard in 1950, a Master?s at Swarthmore, and a doctorate from Harvard in 1956. He then taught at Brandeis, Cornell, and Emory universities.

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Kiel - Germany - United States - Harvard - 1950 - Swarthmore - 1956 - Brandeis - Cornell - Emory

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The modern growth of cognitive psychology received a major boost from the publication in 1967 of the first, and most influential, of his books: Cognitive Psychology.

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Cognitive psychology - 1967

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in 1976, he wrote Cognition and Reality, in which he began to express a dissatisfaction with the linear programming model of cognitive psychology at that time, and the excessive reliance on laboratory work, rather than real-life situations. In his later writings he became critical of the methodology of much cognitive psychology, faulting it for being "ecologically invalid."

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In 1995, Neisser headed an American Psychological Association task force that reviewed controversial issues in the study of race and intelligence, titled "Intelligence: Knowns and Unknowns."

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1995 - American Psychological Association - Race and intelligence

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In 1998, he published The Rising Curve: Long-Term Gains in IQ and Related Measures.

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