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“Psychology should be the chief basic science upon which the practices of education depend. It should have supplied education with the information it needs concerning the processes of understanding, learning, and thinking, among other things. One of the difficulties has been that such theory as has been developed has been based primarily upon studies of behavior of rats and pigeons. As someone has said, some of the theory thus developed has been an insult even to the rat.”

Quote by J. P. Guilford

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J. P. Guilford was a distinguished American psychologist recognized for his seminal work in psychology, particularly in the domains of factor analysis and cognitive structure. He is renowned for his formulation of the theory of factors of mental ability, which has significantly influenced the study of intelligence. more

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