Ability factors and environmental influences.

Abstract

Walter VanDyke Bingham left with his will a memorandum suggesting that there be established, under the auspices of the American Psychological Association, an annual lectureship to call attention to the importance of the discovery and development of talented persons. His wishes have been carried out by Mrs. Walter VanDyke Bingham in her continuing support of the “discovery of the talented” lectures, of which the following paper was the twelfth. Previous lecturers, and the institutions at which they spoke, have been: Lewis M. Terman, University of California, Berkeley, 1954; Louis L. Thurstone, Columbia University, 1955; Donald G. Paterson, Ohio State University, 1956; Cyril Burt, University of London, 1957; Edward K. Strong, Jr., University of Minnesota, 1958; J. P. Guilford, Stanford University 1959; Dael Wolfle, Columbia University, 1960; John M. Stalnaker, Carnegie Institute of Technology, 1961; Donald W. MacKinnon, Yale University, 1962; Edwin E. Ghiselli, University of Michigan, 1963; and Norman H. Mackworth, Pennsylvania State University, 1964.