Holdings Liberal Arts and Sciences Psychology Department Air Crew and Technical Spec... Finding Aid Holdings Liberal Arts and Sciences Psychology Department Air Crew and Technical Spec... Finding Aid Title: Air Crew and Technical Specialists Personnel and Training Research File, 1951-55
ID: 15/19/822
Primary Creator: University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Department of Psychology
Extent: 1.3 cubic feet
Arrangement: by subject and chronologically thereunder
Subjects: Air Force Research, Communications Research
Languages: English
Duplicated materials on Air Crew and Technical Specialists Personnel and Training Research, a combined research program of laboratory and field studies in military psychology for the U.S. Air Force under contract AF 33 (038)-25726, divided into eight categories including literature studies and tests and measurements on behavioral characteristics of air crew and technical specialists and their relationship to job success; determination of the relative effectiveness of tests in correlation to job success; development of psychometric instruments designed to predict job success; operating procedures of Air Defense Command personnel; effects of variations in the media of communication on the comprehension and learning of technical information; personality patterns and self-perceptions; sociometric preferences among B-29 crew members and the effectiveness of communications used in the indoctrination of Air Force recruits.
Courses in psychology began in 1891, after the Board of Trustees voted to establish a professorship of psychology in 1890.1 In 1893, Psychology, along with Economics, Philosophy and Pedagogy, was moved from the College of Literature to the College of Literature to the College of Science in an effort to stress the scientific aspects of these four subjects.2 The aim of this curriculum was "to furnish the student, largely by means of inductive study, a knowledge of the nature of mind, its modes of behavior, the forms under which it manifests itself, the laws according to which it unfolds and develops, and the influence of environment upon this development."3 In 1904, Psychology was formally established as a separate department.4 In 1907, Psychology was approved for a M.S. degree and as a minor for a Ph.D.5 In 1916 the first Ph.D. degree in Psychology was awarded.6 In 1935, Psychology was placed under the newly established Division of Social Sciences.7 In 1945, a M.S. in Clinical Psychology and in 1964 a major in Applied Psychology were added to the curriculum.8 In 1966, a Doctor of Psychology degree became available for those interested in service in Clinical Psychology rather than research and scholarship.9 After 1950, grants authorized extended research programs in the following laboratories:
--Psychological Clinic
--Personality Group Analysis
--Group Effectiveness Research Laboratory
--Child Behavior Laboratory (1967)
--Training Research Laboratory
--Community Psychology Action Center
--Psychological Development Laboratory
--Children's Center Preschool (1967)
1. Catalogue & Register, 1891-92, pp. 18, 115; Board of Trustees Transactions, 16th Report, September 9, 1890, pp. 20, 32.
2. Catalogue & Register, 1891-93, p. 119; 1893-94, pp. 62-65.
3. Ibid., 1893-94, p. 65.
4. Board of Trustees Transactions, 22nd Report, June 6, 1904, p. 292.
5. Ibid., 24th Report, June 10, 1907, p. 133.
6. Ibid., 28th Report, June 13, 1916, p. 959.
7. Ibid., 38th Report, April 20, 1935, p. 161.
8. Ibid., 43rd Report, March 13, 1945, p. 407; 53rd Report, December 16, 1964, p. 271.
9. Ibid, 53rd Report, May 18, 1966, pp. 1178-80.
URL: https://files.archon.library.illinois.edu/uasfa/1519822.pdf
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