Kenneth craik

Kenneth Craik

By darcy.ramos

  • Birth

    Kenneth Craik was born on March 23, 1914 in Leith, Edinburg, United Kingdom.
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    WWII Service

    During WWII, Dr. Craik assisted the RAF with designing training equipment for pilots. He assisted/designed various simulators and researched fatigue.

  • Received Doctorate from Cambridge University

    Dr. Craik was a polymath with an interest in philosophy. He had a particular fascination with visual adaptation.

  • Fellowship with Magdalen Dorothea Vernon

    Dr. Craik assisted and published joint papers with Vernon regarding dark adaptation.

  • The Nature of Explanation

    Dr. Craik developed the theory of mental models. The Nature of Explanation proposes "that thought models, or parallels, reality — that its essential feature is not ‘the mind’, ‘the self’, ‘sense-data’ nor propositions but symbolism, and that this symbolism is largely of the same kind as that which is familiar to us in mechanical devices which aid thought and calculation."

  • First Director of Applied Psychology Unit

    The United Kingdom Medical Research Council established the Applied Psychology Unit in 1944. It is a center for cognitive neuroscience.

  • Death

    Kenneth was tragically killed in an automotive vs. pedestrian accident. He was struck while riding his bike on 8 March 1945, and died the following day.

  • Part 1 - Theory of Human Operators in Control Systems is published

    Published posthumously by the British Journal of Psychology

  • Part 2 - Theory of Human Operators in Control Systems is published

    Published posthumously by the British Journal of Psychology

  • The Nature of Psychology: A Selection of Papers, Essays, and Other Writings by Kenneth J.W. Craik is published

    Stephen L Sherwood edited an publish an anthology of Craik's writings.