Background
Dunham grew up in Albion, ILa town in the southern part of Illinois. Guilford was a descendant of Edward B. Titchener.
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Jack Dunham
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Dunham grew up in Albion, ILa town in the southern part of Illinois. Dunham received his Bachelor of Arts degree from Portland State College in 1962 and his Doctor of Philosophy from the University of Southern California in 1966. He studied at University of Southern California with Doctor Justice of the Peace Guilford.
In his doctorate, Dunham and Guilford worked with the concept of intelligence, and developing factor structures that compose this construct.
Dunham accepted a position as a faculty member with University of Texas, Austin in Educational Psychology. At the University of Texas, Dunham ran a computer-assisted instruction laboratory and continued studying how we learn concepts.
Career
Dunham was a student of Guilford, who received his doctorate from Cornell University in Psychology in 1927. Wundt Received his medical degree from the University of Heidelberg in 1856. In his doctorate, Dunham worked closely with Guilford on developing the factor structure of intelligence.
Guilford was known for his “Guilford Structure of Intellect”, where he presented more than 150 different intellectual abilities, along three main dimensions: (1) Operations, (2) Content, and (3) Products.
However, Dunham found at least two distinct factors within Guilford’s factor structure Content domain: (1) FiguralConcrete, real world information, tangible objects—things in the environment. lieutenant includes visual: information perceived through seeing.
Auditory: information perceived through hearing. And kinesthetic: information perceived through one"s own physical actions.
(2) SymbolicInformation perceived as symbols or signs that stand for something else, e.g., Arabic numerals, the letters of an alphabet, or musical and scientific notations.
Beyond working with Guilford, Dunham was considered the pioneer in incorporating computers in education. He brought together government agencies, educational institutions, and computer companies to exchange information on the use of computers. American Association for the Advancement of Science Southwest Psychological Association.
