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Calvin Perry Stone
Calvin Perry Stone
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as a professor of psychology at Stanford University for most of his adult career anct achieved distinction as a comparative en cl physiological psychologist. His scientific contributions were recognized by his election to the presidency of the American Psychological Association in 1941 and to the National Academy of Sciences in 1943.
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Two special situations provide a framework wherein clevelope(1 the active, agreeable, and intelligent youngster that Calvin is remembered to have been. One of these is the sharp pressure of material insecurity which, though not uncommon among farm families of the region, took a particularly dramatic, and possibly particularly stimulating, form.
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The following year he taught at the high school in Stilwell, Incliana, and then entered Indiana University. By the time he left Valparaiso his interests in advancect stucly were ctividecl between medicine and the social sciences Letters indicate that he was reading Veblen ant!
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In the usual competitive sports he showed no special talents, but as a gymnast he became so proficient as to work with professionals in his college years. His graduating class elected him as its vice-president, a member of the yearbook's board of editors, and class poet.
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without much expenditure of energy." It was with the same straightforward approach to learn that he participated actively in various county and school training programs while at Stillwel, and, in 1915, abandoner! a cherished plan of going East for graduate study, in order to remain in contact with those teachers in whom he aIreacly had confidence ant!
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But he found time to attend university concerts and to pro-vicle assistance to his wife and growing family (Tames. born HIS, and Robert Kemper, born 1920~.
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His thesis subject included a descriptive study of the development of sexual behavior in the male rat and a correlation of this with anatomical and physiological development. [Ie suggested the problem and planned most of it himself, showing a rather unusual independence.
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. While the studies of sexual and maternal behavior were going on there were a number of varied studies dealing with animal behavior in the typical kinds of experimentation current in the late 1920s and 1930s, dealing with learning, maturation, and incentive motivation, chiefly using the maze and special apparatus for studying discrimination.
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During the years 1934 to 1939, Stone anti Roger Barker published six papers on physical clevelopment, menarcheal age, and related psychological changes by studying large samples of college women. World War IT had its effect on universities, and it was a skeletal staff that remained to teach the few students enrolled in the classes to be taught, as most of the male students and many of the female students left to work in warconnectect activities.
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The convention deciclect to retain the American Psychological Association as the overall organization, but proposed a new set of bylaws for the APA, incluciin~ a divisional structure to give a degree of autonomy to . ~ ~ ~ , the various specialized topical or professional interests of the constituencies.
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In instances when he was urged to take time enough to write books, he expressed his conviction that a continuous series of monographic reports would better contribute to current knowledge in psychology than would extended treatises that could only present what was already known. It was his practice to carry forward his research with his hands as well as with his mind.
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his career to domestic affairs, nor family activities to professional advancement. He struck a balance in all that he undertook.
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a heart attack. Although the injury to the heart was extremely serious, he recovered sufficiently to resume teaching in March and took up laboratory activities again in the autumn.
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He wrote on the eve of his death: "During the past two years fortune has smiler! again in pointing out a relatively virgin Relit of animal research suited to my present limitations in time for laboratory studies....
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4:195-224. 1925 Delay in the awakening of copulatory ability in the male albino rat incurred by defective diets.
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24:36-61. The retention of copulatory ability in male rats following castration.
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The relative efficiency of distributed and massed practice in maze learning by young and adult albino rats.
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A comparative study of sexual drive in adult male rats as measured by direct copulatory tests and by the Columbia obstruction apparatus.
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Copulatory activity in adult male rats following castration and injections of testosterone propionate. Endocrinology 24:165-74.
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Counteracting the retarding effects of inanition on the awakening of copulatory ability in male rats by testosterone propionate.
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The disorganizing effects of electro-convulsive shock on a light discrimination habit in albino rats.
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Technical terms for beginning students. In Abnormal Psychology, Mental Hygiene and Medical Social Service.
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Effects of electro-convulsive shocks on maze relearning by albino rats.
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