Ulric Neisser

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Ulric Neisser (born 8 December 1928) is an American psychologist.

Born in Kiel, Germany, he moved with his family to the United States in 1931. Neisser earned a bachelor's degree from Harvard in 1950, a Master’s at Swarthmore, and a doctorate from Harvard in 1956. He then taught at Brandeis, Cornell, and Emory universis.

The modern growth of cognitive psychology received a major boost from the publication in 1967 of the first, and most influential, of his books: Cognitive Psychology.

in 1976, he wrote Cognition and Reality, in which he began to express a dissatisfaction with the linear programming model of cognitive psychology at that time, and the excessive reliance on laboratory work, rather than real-life situations. In his later writings he became critical of the methodology of much cognitive psychology, faulting it for being "ecologically invalid."

In 1981, Neisser published "John Dean's memory: a case study", in regards to the testimony of John Dean for the Watergate Scandal.

In 1995, Neisser headed an American Psychological Association task force writing a consensus statement on the state of intelligence research in response to the claims being advanced amid the Bell Curve controversy.

In 1998, he published The Rising Curve: Long-Term Gains in IQ and Related Measures.

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Neisser, U (1967) Cognitive psychology Appleton-Century-Crofts New York
Neisser, U (1976 ) Cognition and reality: principles and implications of cognitive psychology WH Freeman
Winograd, E & Neisser, U (1988 ) Remembering Reconsidered: Ecological and Traditional Approaches to the Study of Memory Cambridge University Press New York
Fivush, R & Neisser, U (1994) The remembering self: construction and accuracy in the self-narrative. Cambridge University Press New York
Neisser, U (1998) The rising curve: long-term gains in IQ and related measures American Psychological Association
Neisser, U (1993) The Perceived self: Ecological and Interpersonal Sources of Self Knowledge Cambridge University Press New York, NY
Neisser, U (1982 ) Memory observed: remembering in natural contexts
Neisser, U (1987 ) Concepts and conceptual development: ecological and intellectual factors in categorization. Cambridge University Press