31 Facts About David Krech

David Krech was an American Jewish experimental and social psychologist who lectured predominately at the University of California, Berkeley.

David Krech's name was changed to David Krech in 1943 when he married Hilda Sidonie Gruenberg.

David Krech did this because he did not want his future son to be labeled with a Jewish name that had held him back in both academic and career pursuits.

David Krech extensively researched rats in several university laboratories and found evidence that supported the localization theory of the brain.

Later in his career, Krech became interested in the topic of Social Psychology which led him to publishing Theory and Problems of Social Psychology in 1948 with Richard S Crutchfield.

David Krech lectured at many universities on the topic of Social Psychology, Experimental Psychology, and others.

Toward the end of his research career, Krech collaborated with Melvin Calvin, Mark R Rosenzweig, Edward L Bennett, and Marian Diamond to research the relationship between brain chemistry and behavior in rats as well as the anatomical neuroplasticy in the rat cortex.

David Krech was born as Yitzhok-Eizik Krechevsky on March 27,1909, in Svencionys, to Joseph Krechevsky and Sarah Rabinowitz.

David Krech was the second youngest of nine children, one of whom died before adulthood.

In May 1913, when David Krech was 4-years-old, his Jewish family emigrated to New Britain, Connecticut from Lithuania.

David Krech had a passion for the Hebrew language and literature that stayed with him throughout his life, even after he rejected formal religion.

David Krech died at his home in Berkeley, California, on July 14,1977, at the age of 67.

David Krech obtained his undergraduate degree in Psychology from NYU in 1930, and finished his master's degree in 1931, from NYU.

When Lashley left Chicago for Harvard, David Krech was promoted to supervise the laboratory.

Also in Chicago, David Krech worked for an organization called New America from September 1939 to July 1941.

For New America, David Krech was a managing editor of publications.

David Krech was interested in connecting psychologists and encouraged them to better America.

In 1938, David Krech was appointed to teaching faculty at the University of Colorado Boulder, but shortly after on June 10,1939, David Krech was fired from the university and expelled from academia due to a clash of opinions on political matters between him and the board of regents.

David Krech entered the United States Army when he was assigned to the Office of Strategic Services.

In 1947, David Krech was hired as an associate professor at the University of California, Berkeley.

Two years after teaching at Berkeley, David Krech was invited to teach as a visiting professor of social psychology at the University of Oslo in Norway.

David Krech taught at Harvard because he was avoiding signing the political loyalty oath required at Berkeley.

David Krech testified saying that segregation can greatly damage children psychologically.

David Krech was a laboratory assistant for T C Schneirla, spending his time caring for the lab's rats and army ants.

David Krech developed his first Hypothesis Box to begin doing animal research on his own.

David Krech began to run rats through discrimination problems using his Hypothesis Box.

David Krech was particularly influenced by Lashley's finding that in some tasks, rats would try different solutions to problems before coming to the final, correct solution.

David Krech concluded that learning is a trial-and-error series of actions, where responses that are incorrect are stopped and correct responses are "stamped in".

At the University of Chicago, David Krech worked with Karl Lashley for three years.

Once David Krech was at Swarthmore College, he began an animal laboratory where he published a single experiment with rats and worked with Karl Duncker to publish a theoretical article.

David Krech's experiments focused on studying perception and new ways of inquiring and analyzing.