Arden N. Frandsen

Arden N. Frandsen (born February 4, 1902 as Arden Niels Frandsen in Redmond , Sevier County , Utah , † February 13, 2002 in Logan , Cache County , Utah) was an American psychologist .

Life

Family and education

Born in the small town of Redmond in the state of Utah, Arden N. Frandsen, son of Niels Frandsen and his wife Algie, born Anderson, graduated from Salina High School in 1921. He then turned to the study of psychology at the University of Utah , in 1927 he acquired the academic degree of a Bachelor of Science , in 1929 that of a Master of Science . In 1932 he was at the University of Montana for Ph. D. doctorate . Arden N. Frandsen received Diplomate status from the American Board of Examiners in Professional Psychology.

Arden N. Frandsen married Phyllis J. Jorgenson (1905-1997) in September 1933. The daughter Julia Ann came from this marriage. Arden N. Frandsen died in Logan in February 2002 just after he had turned 100. He was buried next to his wife in Logan City Cemetery.

Professional background

After a position as a teacher, followed by a civil service in Montana in prisons and psychiatric clinics, Frandsen was engaged in 1933 in the position of assistant professor of psychology at the University of Utah. In 1936 he followed a call to Logan as a professor of psychology at Utah State University . In addition, he was appointed head of the Department of Psychology, which he resigned in 1967. Arden N. Frandsen retired in 1972 . These activities were interrupted from 1947 to 1949 by an associate professor of psychology at Purdue University .

In addition, he taught as a visiting professor at the Summer Courses of San Jose State College , the College of Education at New York University , the Plattsburgh State College, the University of Illinois and Cornell University .

Arden N. Frandsen was elected a Fellow of the American Psychological Association and a member of the National Society for the Study of Education and Sigma Xi . He is one of the leading school and learning psychologists in the USA of his time.

Fonts

• The influence of the pleasant and unpleasant connotations of words upon the efficiency with which children learn to spell them, MS Dept. of Psychology, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah, 1929
• An eye-movement study of objective examination questions, in: Genetic psychology monographs. : v. 16, no.2, Clark University, Worcester, Mass., 1934
• The Wechsler-Bellevue intelligence scale and high school achievement, in: Journal of applied psychology. : v. 34, no. 6, American Psychological Association, Washington, 1950, pp. 406-411.gg
• A Note on Wiener's Coding of Kuder Preference Record Profiles, in: Educational and Psychological Measurement. : v. 12, no. 1, Durham, NC, 1952, pp. 137-139.
• How children learn: an educational psychology, McGraw-Hill Series in education, McGraw-Hill, New York, 1957
• Educational psychology, in: McGraw-Hill Series in education, McGraw-Hill, New York, 1961
• Instructor's Manual for Educational Psychology; the principles of learning in teaching, in: McGraw-Hill Series in education, McGraw-Hill, New York, 1961
• Group facilitation of individual learning, in: Psychology in the Schools. : v. 6, no. 3, Wiley Subscription Services, Inc., Hoboken, NJ, 1969, pp. 292-297.

literature

• Who's Who in America: a biographical dictionary of notable living men and women. : volume 33 (1964-1965), Marquis Who's Who, Chicago, Ill., 1964, p. 681.
• James McKeen Cattell (Ed.): American men of science: a biographical directory. : volume 7, Bowker, New York, 1968, p. 505.
• Ernest Kay: The International authors and writers who's who, Melrose Press, Cambridge, 1976, p. 200.
• Arden N. Frandsen, in: The Herald Journal - Bridgerlands Daily Newspaper, Feb 15, 2002, Herald Journal, Logan, Utah, 2002

Web links

• N. Arden Frandsen in the database of Find a Grave (English)