Knight Dunlap founded the Journal of Psychology, was the first editor of the Journal of Comparative Psychology, and was the President of the American Psychological Association.
16 Facts About Knight Dunlap
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Knight Dunlap's concentration was in experimental psychology and some of his best known inventions were the Dunlap chronoscope, the Dunlap tapping plate, and the Dunlap chair for vestibular investigation.
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Knight Dunlap grew up in rural California and was educated at the University of California, Berkeley.
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Knight Dunlap held the title of Professor of Experimental Psychology and remained there for 20 years.
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Knight Dunlap was appointed president of the American Psychological Association in 1922.
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Knight Dunlap tried to dissociate himself from Watson's behaviorism and thought it was derivative of scientific psychology.
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Knight Dunlap was most against the idea of introspective and consciousness ideals brought up by Freud.
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In 1936, Knight Dunlap joined the faculty of the University of California, Los Angeles as Professor and Chairman of the department of Psychology.
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Knight Dunlap wrote many books and articles detailing his theories and experimental work, including those that featured his inventions.
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The Knight Dunlap Chronoscope was a device that was used in order to measure brief time intervals.
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Knight Dunlap improved the chonoscope so that it made less noise, did not need to be wound up, ran for longer periods of time, had a large, easy to read dial, and the hand automatically reset to zero.
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The Knight Dunlap tapping plate was a tablet like apparatus that had an attached stylus.
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Finally, there was the Knight Dunlap chair for vestibular research, which was a chair that was attached to a rotating device that allowed the researchers to easily rotate a person while they are sitting down.
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Knight Dunlap met John Watson during his time at UCLA and they continued to work together at Johns Hopkins University.
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John Watson initially had a strong view on imagery, which Knight Dunlap had skepticism about, leading Watson to drop his own views of imagery, and focus more of his studies on behaviorism.
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The name Knight Dunlap is not as well known in the field of behaviorism, and he partially blames himself as seen in his journals.