The citizen. [volume] (Berea, Ky.) 1899-1958, 1921-02-03
DEAN WAUGH HONORED

ing of the American Psychological
Association, which was held in Chi.
cago, December 20, 20, 80. Tn,
facts Of this national gathering OF
psychologists did not get into oui
possession until this week, and We
will not give the full program, which
was quite lengthy, but only the part
that directly concerns Berea.
The American Psychological Asso-
citation admits only men and women
of recognized ability and authority in
the field Of psychology. Dean Kari
T. Waugh Of Berea is a member OF
the Association, and was one Of the
speakers at the meeting recently held
at the University Of Chicago. The
following is the session in which he
appeared:
Wednesday, 2:30 P. NJ.
Session for Social Psychology
A Study Of the Methods Of Revival
ists-w. T. Shepherd, Columbia
University.
A Comparison of Oriental and Amer
lean Student Intelligence-Karl T.
Waugh, Berea College.
Standpoint Of Social Psychology
Robert H. Gault, Northwestern
University.
Preliminary Report on a Gifted Juve-
nile Author-Lewis M. Terman,
Stanford University.
Belief as a Derived Emotion-W. Nc
Dougal, Harvard University.
The following is the abstract Of
Dean Waugh's address:
The paper describes an investiga-
tion made during the winter of 1916
II, when the writer vas in the Orient.
series Of mental tests were given
to the First Year cciicge students of
three institutions in India and one
institution in China.
The tests selected for this work
were the same as those given for a
series of years to American college
freshmen, the results of which were
reported at the meeting of this as
ISOLATION, held in Chicago, Deem
Der. 1915.
The investigation forms a study in
comparative racial psychology, and,
taken in connection with the previous
work on Mental Tests Of American
College students, makes a contribu-
ton to the solution Of the problem OF
the relative mental effects Of hered-
ity and environment. The Indian
and American subjects represent the
same racial stock, viz, the Aryan, but
differ from one another by all the en-
vironmental features that distinguish
the Orient from the Occident. The
Chinese and American subjects, on
the other hand, are compared as rep
resentatives of different racial stocks.
The tests given were for (D con-
centration Of attention, (2) learning
speed, (3) association time, (4 mem
ory-immediate, (5) memory-de-
ferred, (6) range of information.
The cancellation, substitution, OPP
posites and logical memory tests, in
the exact form given to American
students, were given to students Of
equivalent grade and age Of the
Lucknow Christian College, the Isa=
belle Thoburn College, Lucknow, and
the Forman Christian College, La
hore, india. The range of informa-
ton test was modified in such a way
as to accommodate differences Of a
linguistic sort. OF the hundred words
and phrases Of the Whipple list;
those drawn from the French, Span
ish, and italian were replaced by
words Of equal difficulty taken from
the Persian--the language bearing
the same relation to the Hindustani
that the Romance Ian
guages do to English. Words from
the Latin and Greek were replaced
by words of equal difficulty from the
Sanscrit, and words from other Euro
pean languages by equivalent words
drawn from the Arabic.
The tests, with the exception Of
those for memory, were given in the
usual form, to the college students of
the Canton Christian College, Can
ton, China.
Percentile curves and frequency
curves are presented giving the group
attainments in the several tests, the
curves for the American, India. and
Chinese students being shown on the
same plot for comparison.
The following is the order of at
By Char
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