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Researched at Cambridge Psychological Laboratory
Kenneth Craik joined the Cambridge Psychological Laboratory where he researched and experimented with special senses. Focusing on ‘visual adaptation’ he did studies on bright-and-dark-adaptation. Craik experimented with “conditions at and above the threshold under which the human eye is most keenly discriminative, and with some of the phenomena of visual after-images.” (Bartlett, 1945) -
Produced Fatigue Apparatus for Royal Air Force
Kenneth Craik designed and produced the first Fatigue Apparatus, which is also the same year he received his doctorate. His interest was in the visual adaptation related to flying. Craik designed the Fatigue Apparatus for the Royal Air Force aircraft simulators and allowed for the gathering of data on how aircraft affects fatigue on the body and mind. The apparatus showed that when pilots becomes more fatigued, they make more movements to the aircraft and become extremely distractible. (Rolfe) -
The Nature of Explanation
In his only published work, Kenneth Craik writes about the mind and how it is a "highly complex machine" and how it can "model or parallel external events." (Cambridge University Press, 1967). He writes about different experiments on the art and theory of illusion and paradox. Tragically, The Nature of Explanation was published only a couple years before a sudden bicycle accident that resulted in his death in 1945. This book is of interest to many disciplines of science interested in the mind. -
Appointed Director of Applied Psychology Unit at Cambridge
Cambridge creates the Applied Psychology Unit. Due to his reputation as an outstanding experimental psychologist the school's new psychology unit appoints Kenneth Craik as its first director. Craik sought out to do big things in this department but sadly died the next year. (Rolfe)