COLLECTION DESCRIPTION
Collection includes Eleanor Gibson's Masters Thesis from Smith; PhD Thesis from Yale; and other material from her graduate studies. Items relating to her teaching career include lecture notes, demonstration materials, experiment designs, examinations and students' papers. Also included are grant proposals and data from experiments conducted at Cornell's Graduate Psychological Laboratories in various aspects of perception and learning such as childhood reading disorders, scanning, word perception, and information processing; material for Psychology of Reading; and An Odyssey in Learning and Perception ; vitae and biographical sketches; 1992 National Medal of Science Award memorabilia; articles by Eleanor J. Gibson, James J. Gibson, and other psychology scholars separated by author and subject; notes and slides for lectures, talks, and colloquiums; folders of correspondence; tape recording of E.G. Boring's 1967 speech on the founding of the Society of Experimental Psychologists delivered at the centennial of the birth of Edward B. Titchener; and assorted floppy disks.
Dates
- 1906 - 1999
- Majority of material found within 1935 - 1999
Creator
- Gibson, Eleanor J. (Person)
Language of Materials
Collection material in English
BIOGRAPHICAL NOTE
Professor of Psychology and holder of the Susan Linn Sage Chair, Cornell University.
Extent
21 cubic feet. (21 cubic feet.)
Abstract
Material relating to Eleanor J. Gibson's education, research, and career as a Professor of Psychology.
SERIES LIST
Series I. Eleanor Gibson Material, 1933-1999
Material from Eleanor Gibson's undergraduate and graduate studies including her masters and doctoral theses, vitae and biographical sketches, correspondence, material relating to her 1992 National Medal of Science Award, and articles written by Eleanor Gibson.
Series II. Subject Files, 1906-1998
Notes and articles arranged by subject.
Series III. Psychology Scholar Files, 1941-1997
Notes and articles by colleagues and other psychology scholars
Series IV. Talks, Lectures, and Classes, 1931-1998
Notes, slides, and articles for classes, lectures, and talks.
Series V. Experiments and Grants, 1943-1980
Grant proposals, data from experiments.
Series VI. Book Publication Files 1917-1978
Material for book
Series VII. Miscellaneous
Physical Description
Correspondence, articles, notes, slides, photographs, videotapes.
General
- Contact Information:
- Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections 2B Carl A. Kroch Library Cornell University Ithaca, NY 14853 (607) 255-3530 Fax: (607) 255-9524 rareref@cornell.edu http://rmc.library.cornell.edu
- Compiled by:
- Sarah K. Gordon
- Date completed:
- June 12, 2003
- EAD encoding:
- Sarah K. Gordon, June 2003
- Date modified:
- Jude Corina, July 2017
- Boring, E.G.
- Children -- Research.
- Cornell University. Department of Psychology
- Cornell University. Graduate Psychological Laboratories
- Gibson, Eleanor J.
- Learning, Psychology of.
- Perception.
- Perceptual learning.
- Psychologists.
- Psychology -- Study and teaching.
- Reading, Psychology of.
- Society of Experimental Psychologists
- Women college students.
- Women college teachers.
- Women psychologists.
- Status
- Completed
- Author
- Compiled by Sarah Gordon
- Date
- June 5, 2003
- Language of description
- Undetermined
- Script of description
- Code for undetermined script
- Language of description note
- ENG
Repository Details
Part of the Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections Repository
2B Carl A. Kroch Library
Cornell University
Ithaca NY 14853
607-255-3530
607-255-9524 (Fax)
rareref@cornell.edu