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A history of psychology in autobiography Vol. VII.Eleanor J. Gibson.

A history of psychology in autobiography Vol. VII.: Eleanor J. Gibson. I will abbreviate the beginning of this tale because my early life was so traditional as to make very dull telling. I did not escape from a bloody revolution or a wasting childhood disease or even a broken home. I was reared in an atmosphere of middle-class respectability among dozens of kindly, staunch Presbyterian relatives, all of English and Scotch-Irish ancestry, and all those ancestors had been long established in America. The only surprising thing to me is how I managed to break away so far from this background and emerge as an intellectual (an academic, at least), with ideas that would seem radical to many of my forebears. No one ever suggested that I was a bright child, or particularly wanted me to be bright. I began to ponder the matter when I went to high school at the age of twelve and found my peers generally older and more sophisticated than I. I wondered still more about my intellect when I grew interested in boys and found that it was essential, if I wanted any reciprocation, to conceal the fact that my grades were A's. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2022 APA, all rights reserved) http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png

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Publisher
W H Freeman & Co
Copyright
Copyright © 1980 American Psychological Association
Pages
239 –271
DOI
10.1037/11346-006
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I will abbreviate the beginning of this tale because my early life was so traditional as to make very dull telling. I did not escape from a bloody revolution or a wasting childhood disease or even a broken home. I was reared in an atmosphere of middle-class respectability among dozens of kindly, staunch Presbyterian relatives, all of English and Scotch-Irish ancestry, and all those ancestors had been long established in America. The only surprising thing to me is how I managed to break away so far from this background and emerge as an intellectual (an academic, at least), with ideas that would seem radical to many of my forebears. No one ever suggested that I was a bright child, or particularly wanted me to be bright. I began to ponder the matter when I went to high school at the age of twelve and found my peers generally older and more sophisticated than I. I wondered still more about my intellect when I grew interested in boys and found that it was essential, if I wanted any reciprocation, to conceal the fact that my grades were A's. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2022 APA, all rights reserved)

Published: Feb 12, 2007

Keywords: Eleanor J Gibson; autobiography; psychologists

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