Nancy Bayley
1899 - 1994
History & Zeitgeist
Zeitgeist: Nancy Bayley
► September
28, 1899-- Nancy Bayley born
 1916-- Congress
 1917-- Picketing for suffrage
 1920-- 19th Amendment; League of Women
Voters
Zeitgeist: Nancy Bayley
► 1922--
B.S. University of Washington
 1923-- Equal Rights Amendment proposed
► 1924--
M.S. in psychology University of
Washington
 1925-- First woman governor
► 1926--
Ph.D., University of Iowa &
Instructor, University of Wyoming
 1933-- First woman in U.S. cabinet
Zeitgeist: Nancy Bayley’s Career
► 1933--
First woman in U.S. cabinet
► 1941-1945-- WW II
► 1942-- Women in military
► 1954-- NIMH
► 1963-- Equal Pay Act
► 1963-- Feminist movement
► 1964-- Civil Rights Act
Zeitgeist: Nancy Bayley’s Career
► 1966:
Distinguished Scientific Contribution
► 1966-- NOW
► 1971-- APA Stanley Hall Award
► 1972-- Title IX
► 1972-- Equal Rights Amendment
► 1973-- Row v. Wade
► 1981-- Supreme Court
► 1982-- APF Gold Medal
► 1993-- Attorney General
► 1993-- Sexual Harassment
► 1994-- Nancy Bayley Dies
Professional Obstacles
Early 20th century for women
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1903- Women’s Trade
Union League
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1920- Woman
Suffrage, 19th
Amendment.
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1941-1945, WWII
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1964- Civil Rights Act
Nancy Bayley, Early on
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Did not start school until she was 8
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Made up two years by age 10
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Completed schooling quickly
The 20th century for women in
academia
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Salary: Men > Women
across the board
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Major universities 1960:
6.6% women, 2.6% full
professorships
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Tenured positions: Men >
Women
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Women typically clustered
at the lower ranks
Women in academia, cont
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Degrees earned, slight
+ trend from 1900 to
1971
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Employment status of
PhD’s 1960-1973
Struggles, cont.

hugely successful
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lived through a time of change for women
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apparently unaffected

awards, accomplishments
Experiments and
Research
Berkeley Growth Study
►
Factors that do not influence IQ
Health
► Sex
► Nursery school attendance
► Birth order
► Only child
► Divorced parents
► Shy children
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Berkeley Growth Study
► Followed
► Mental
development through adulthood
growth stabilizes ≈ 4 years
Bayley Scales of Infant Development
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Assesses development between 1 month
to 3.5 years
Mental, Motor, and Behavior Rating Scales
► Standard
for infant assessment
► Standardization
of 1400 infants
sample
Bayley Scales of Infant Development
► Reliability
 First year .63-.93 split half
 First year >.55 test-retest
► Good
Validity
Strengths and Weaknesses
Strengths
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Measurement & Ethics
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Naturalistic observation
Did not rely on one testing session
Concerned with welfare of participants
Bayley scales can be used with Normal,
High risk, and MR infants
Weaknesses
► No
adult scales
► Weak
► IQ
for lower preschool age
not highly predictive before age 4
Influences
Physical Development
► Predicting
adult size from infant size
 Sex, height, skeletal age, & velocity of growth
 Accurate within 1-inch
 Height chart still in use
Motor & Mental Development
► 1940
- Rapid growth in infancy due to
 Nervous system growth
 Stronger muscles
 Change in body proportions
► These
ideas were
proven in 1980’s
Bayley Scales of Infant
Development