| Description | Honorary Fellow British Psychological Society (Hon.FBPsS), MRC and University of Reading, President of the British Psychological Society (BPS), 1958 to 1959.
File consists of 1- folder containing offprints from various publications written by Professor Magdalen D.Vernon (Hon.FBPsS).
Titles include:
'On Certain Effects of Long Spells of Repetitive Work' from The British Journal of Psychology (General Section), Vol.XVI, Part 3, January, 1926 CUP
'The Relationship of Subjective Experience to the Performance of Eye Movements' from The British Journal of Psychology (General Section), Vol.XX, Part 2, October, 1929 CUP
'Characteristics of Proof-Reading' from The British Journal of Psychology (General Section), Vol.XXI, Part 4, April, 1931 CUP
'The Peripheral Perception of Movement' from The British Journal of Psychology (General Section), Vol.XXIII, Part 3, January, 1933 CUP
'The Binocular Perception of Flicker' from The British Journal of Psychology (General Section), Vol.XXIV, Part 4, April, 1934 CUP
'The Perception of Inclined Lines'from The British Journal of Psychology (General Section), Vol.XXV, Part 2, October, 1934 CUP
'The Perception of Distance' from The British Journal of Psychology (General Section), Vol.XXVIII, Parts 1 and ', 1937 CUP
'The Drives which Determine the Choice of a Career' from The British Journal of Educational Psychology edited by C.W.Valentine et al, Vol.VII, Part 3, Vol. VIII Part I. November 1937, February 1938 Methuen and Co.
'Characteristic Motivation in the Activities of School-Girls' from The British Journal of Psychology (General Section), Vol.XXIX, Part 2, Oct.1938 and Part 3 January 1939 January, 1926 CUP
'The Relation of Cognition and Phantasy in Children. Parts I and II from The British Journal of Psychology (General Section), Vol.XXX, Part 4, April 1940 and Vol.XXXI Part I, July 1940 CUP
'The Relationship of Occupation to Personality' from The British Journal of Psychology (General Section), Vol.XXXI, Part 4, April 1941 CUP
'The Nature of Dark Adaptation' [2-copies] with K.J.W.Craik from The British Journal of Psychology (General Section), Vol.XXXII, Part 1, July 1941 CUP
'Perception During Dark Adaptation'with K.J.W.Craik from The British Journal of Psychology (General Section), Vol.XXXXII, Part 3, January, 1942 CUP
'The Development of Imaginative Construction in Children'[2-copies] from The British Journal of Psychology (General Section), Vol.XXXIX, Part 2, December 1948 CUP
'The Use and Value of Graphical Methods of Presenting Quantitative Data' from Occupational Psychology, Vol.XXVI Number 1 January 1952
'The Value of Pictorial Illustration' form The British Journal of Educational Psychology' Vol.XXII Part 3, November 1953, Methuen and Co
'Perception and Understanding of Instructional Television Programmes' from The British Journal of Psychology (General Section), Vol.XLIV, Part 2, May 1953
'Vision' reprinted from Annual Review of Psychology Vol.4 1953
'The Instruction of Children by Pictorial Illustration' [2-copies] from The British Journal of Educational Psychology Vol.XXIV Part III November 1954
'The Improvement of Reading' from The British Journal of Educational Psychology Vol. XXVI Part II June 1956
'Use of Visual Aids in Teaching Skilled Manipulative Tasks' reprinted from Nature, Vol.179 p.351 only, February 16th 1957
'Intelligence and Reading Ability' from The Slow Learning Child ,The Australian Journal on the Education of Backward Children Vol.5 No-2 November 1958 University of Queensland Press
'Perception, Attention and Consciousness' an address by Professor Vernon President of Section J delivered on September 4th 1959, at the York meeting of the British Association reprint No. 62 from The Advancement of Science, September 1959
'The Investigation of Reading Problems Today' [2-copies] from The British Journal of Educational Psychology Vol.XXX Part 11. June 1960 Methuen and Co Ltd
The development of Perception in Children' from Educational Research: A Review for Teachers and All Concerned with Progress in Education, Vol.II No.I November 1960 Newnes
'Comment on The Enclosing Contour Effect' from Perceptual and Motor Skills, 1961 13,334 Southern Universities Press 1961
'The Relation of Perception to Personality Factors' [2-copies] from Brit.J.Psychol. 52,3 pp. 205-217, 1961
Obituary Notice for Albert William Wolters by M.D.Vernon from Brit.J.Psychol. 52,4 pp 309-310 1961
'Specific Dyslexia' [3-copies] from The British Journal of Educational Psychology Vol.XXXII, Part 2 June 1962
'Specific Dyslexia: A Reply to Dr.Russell Davis and Mr Asher Cashdan' from The British Journal of Educational Psychology Vol.XXXIII February 1963
'The Functions of Schematic Categories in Perception' by M.D.Vernon 1-page, uncredited.
See persons file for M D Vernon's biography.
Obituary published in the Guardian newspaper, 7 December 1991 (Alice Helm)
Obituary published in The Psychologist, February 1992 (Roy Davis). |
| AdminHistory | Magdalen Vernon [b. June 25 1901 d. December 1, 1991] Professor of Psychology.
Birthplace: Oxford, daughter of H.M.Vernon and sister of Philip Vernon.
Educated: Newham College, Cambridge. Graduated 1924
Joined Frederic Bartlett at Cambridge University's Psychological Laboratory in 1925 to 1946
Appointed lecturer at Reading University 1946
Elected Chair of Psychology [at Reading] 1956- until retirement [late sixties]
Founder member of the Experimental Psychology Group (President 1950 to 1953)
President of the British Psychological Society from 1958 to 1961
Made Honorary Fellow of the BPS in 1970 |