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Kenneth Craik's Early Life
Kenneth John William Craik was born March 29, 1914. Kenneth Craik attended Edinburgh Academy and Edinburgh University. Craik read philosophy and studied psychology at Edinburgh University where he received the Shaw Fellowship award. -
Kenneth Craik Early Works
Kenneth Craik's experiments focused on visual adaptation. Craik designed an apparatus that studied the effects of adaptation on differential brightness sensitivity. The apparatus provided adapting and test fields that could be independently varied in intensity from a value close to the threshold for the dark-adapted eye to a maximum of 4,000 foot-lamberts. -
Kenneth Craik: The Visionary
In 1940, Kenneth Craik submitted his PhD. thesis and dissertation on the measurement of the differential sensitivity of the eye with varying degrees of adaptation to the brightness of the illumination. -
Kenneth Craik: "The Nature of Explanation"
In 1943, Kenneth Craik published his only study, the book, "The Nature of Explanation". The book introduces the idea of cognitive brain function in terms of physical internal models. The mental representation of nature, its processes, and how the nervous system transforms to the outside. -
Kenneth Craik: The Visionary
Kenneth Craik was one of the first scientists/ philosophers to study and create a concept of mental models of the mind and preception. Known today as cognitive science. -
Kenneth Craik's Hypothesis
The essence of Craik's hypothesis on the nature of thought. He envisaged a model as a physical or chemical system which has a relation-structure similar to that of the process it imitates. The theory starts with the observation of some external, extent or process, to arrive at some conclusion or prediction, and present the observation in words or numbers, based on the solution of reasoning. -
Kenneth Craik: The Visionary
During the Second World War Kenneth Craik worked with military to provide solutions relating to dark adaptation in vision. Craik developed a photometer which is believed to prove a connection with night flying and tank warfare in the desert. -
Kenneth Craik: The Visionary
Kenneth Craik also created solutions on visual location of enemy submarines during day sweeps by Coastal Commands, while working for the Flying Personnel Research Committee. -
Kenneth Craik: Director
In 1944, Kenneth Craik became director of the Applied Psychology Unit, established by the Medical Research Council. -
Kenneth Craik's Death
As a result of a road accident in Cambridge, Kenneth Craik died on May 7, 1945. -
The Kenneth Craik Concept
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References
Zangwill, O. L. “Kenneth Craik: The Man and His Work *.” British Journal of Psychology, vol. 71, no. 1, Blackwell Publishing Ltd, Feb. 1980, pp. 1–16, doi:10.1111/j.2044-8295.1980.tb02723.x. https://i2.wp.com/seanvantyne.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/mental_model.jpg?ssl=1
