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The Brown–Peterson task refers to two studies published in the late 1950s that used similar procedures, one in 1958 by John Brown [1] and a second in 1959 by Lloyd and Margaret Peterson. [2] The first experiment involved 24 psychology students at Indiana University at the time. The examiner proceeded by spelling a random three-letter nonsense ...
This led to what is known as the Brown–Peterson paradigm. The theory was again challenged, this time a paper by Keppel and Underwood who attributed the findings to proactive interference. Studies in the 1970s by Reitman tried reviving the decay theory by accounting for certain confounds criticized by Keppel and Underwood.
The VIA Inventory of Strengths ( VIA-IS ), formerly known as the "Values in Action Inventory," is a proprietary psychological assessment measure designed to identify an individual's profile of "character strengths". It was created by Christopher Peterson and Martin Seligman, researchers in the field of positive psychology, in order to ...
On February 3, 1959, American rock and roll musicians Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens, and "The Big Bopper" J. P. Richardson were all killed in a plane crash near Clear Lake, Iowa, together with pilot Roger Peterson. [a] [1] [2] The event became known as " The Day the Music Died " after singer-songwriter Don McLean referred to it as such in his ...
e. Sir Johannes Bjelke-Petersen [b] KCMG (13 January 1911 – 23 April 2005) was a conservative Australian politician. He was the longest-serving and longest-lived premier of Queensland, [2] holding office from 1968 to 1987, during which time the state underwent considerable economic development. [3] He has become one of the most well-known and ...
The Peterson Field Guides (PFG) are a popular and influential series of American field guides intended to assist the layman in identification of birds, plants, insects and other natural phenomena. The series was created and edited by renowned ornithologist Roger Tory Peterson (1908–1996). His inaugural volume was the classic 1934 book A Field ...
Michael Iver Peterson (born October 23, 1943) is an American novelist who was convicted in 2003 of murdering his second wife, Kathleen Peterson, on December 9, 2001. After eight years, Peterson was granted a new trial after the judge ruled a critical prosecution witness gave misleading testimony. [1] In 2017, Peterson submitted an Alford plea ...
1951–2010. Website. www .edthigpen .com. Edmund Leonard Thigpen (December 28, 1930 – January 13, 2010) [1] was an American jazz drummer, best known for his work with the Oscar Peterson trio from 1959 to 1965. Thigpen also performed with the Billy Taylor trio from 1956 to 1959.