Her dissertation "A study of the reactions of spastic children to certain test situations" studied how children with the condition spastic paralysis performed in cognitive tests compared to matched children who matched similarly by sex, age, and mental age.[6] The study found that spastic children had different test responses such as "bizarre or fantastic responses", more concrete than abstract, and more stereotypical compared to normal children.[6] Their resulting hypothesis suggests that these tendencies are most likely due to cortical injuries from spastic children.[6] A neurological diagnosis would be necessary to confirm this study's hypothesis.[6]
Cotton's great-grandmother was Rebecca Harris, a domestic worker in Michigan. After Harris' oldest child was denied admission to the seminary where Harris worked due to her race, she moved her husband and four children to Oberlin so that the children could go to college there. Rebecca Harris was also one of the "few voting women delegates at an Emigration Convention in Cleveland in 1854".[8] Cotton was the daughter of the Reverend John Adams Cotton, a Presbyterian minister who served as the president of the Henderson Normal Institute (1903–43); he would later serve as president of Knoxville College.[9] and the former Miss Maude R. Brooks, who also graduated from Oberlin College (1896) Mrs. Cotton was also an educator as well as a musician and author; she wrote the words and the music to the song "We Are Lifting As We Climb."[10]
On July 9, 1943, Carol Cotton married William T. Bowie in Chicago, Illinois, with whom she had a daughter. They would subsequently divorce.[11]
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carol, blanche, cotton, carol, bowie, august, 1904, november, 1971, american, psychologist, born, 1904, august, 1904henderson, north, carolinadied, 1971, november, 1971elyria, ohioother, namescarol, bowie, william, bowieeducationoberlin, collegealma, matercolu. Carol Blanche Cotton Carol C Bowie August 20 1904 November 22 1971 1 was an American psychologist Carol Blanche CottonBorn 1904 08 20 20 August 1904Henderson North CarolinaDied 1971 11 22 22 November 1971Elyria OhioOther namesCarol C Bowie Mrs William T BowieEducationOberlin CollegeAlma materColumbia University and University of ChicagoScientific careerFieldsPsychologyThesisA Study of the Reactions of Spastic Children to Certain Test Situations 1939 She was born in the city of Henderson North Carolina the only child of John Adams Cotton and Maude Brooks Cotton 1 Carol Cotton received her bachelor s degree from Oberlin College her master s from Columbia University in 1927 and her Ph D from Department of Psychology University of Chicago in 1939 2 3 4 5 She was elected to the scientific honor society Sigma Xi 2 Her dissertation A study of the reactions of spastic children to certain test situations studied how children with the condition spastic paralysis performed in cognitive tests compared to matched children who matched similarly by sex age and mental age 6 The study found that spastic children had different test responses such as bizarre or fantastic responses more concrete than abstract and more stereotypical compared to normal children 6 Their resulting hypothesis suggests that these tendencies are most likely due to cortical injuries from spastic children 6 A neurological diagnosis would be necessary to confirm this study s hypothesis 6 Contents 1 Professional career 2 Personal life 3 Honors 4 ReferencesProfessional career editCarol Cotton Bowie first taught at Bennett College and Tuskegee University before being appointed to the position of professor in the Psychology Department of what is now North Carolina Central University in Durham North Carolina She served as head of the department before her retirement in 1962 7 Personal life editCotton s great grandmother was Rebecca Harris a domestic worker in Michigan After Harris oldest child was denied admission to the seminary where Harris worked due to her race she moved her husband and four children to Oberlin so that the children could go to college there Rebecca Harris was also one of the few voting women delegates at an Emigration Convention in Cleveland in 1854 8 Cotton was the daughter of the Reverend John Adams Cotton a Presbyterian minister who served as the president of the Henderson Normal Institute 1903 43 he would later serve as president of Knoxville College 9 and the former Miss Maude R Brooks who also graduated from Oberlin College 1896 Mrs Cotton was also an educator as well as a musician and author she wrote the words and the music to the song We Are Lifting As We Climb 10 On July 9 1943 Carol Cotton married William T Bowie in Chicago Illinois with whom she had a daughter They would subsequently divorce 11 In her later years Bowie lived in Oberlin Ohio 12 She was a member of Alpha Kappa Alpha Honors editShe was elected in 1951 a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science 13 References edit a b Vance County Births C a b Wini Warren 1999 Black Women Scientists in the United States Indiana University Press pp 66 67 ISBN 0 253 33603 1 The Crisis October 1939 Sammons Vivian O 1990 Blacks in science and medicine New York Hemisphere Pub Corp ISBN 0 89116 665 3 OCLC 19628380 Guthrie Robert V 2004 Even the rat was white a historical view of psychology Classic 2nd ed Boston MA Allyn and Bacon ISBN 0 205 39264 4 OCLC 51586424 a b c d Cotton Carol Blanche 1941 A Study of the Reactions of Spastic Children to Certain Test Situations The Pedagogical Seminary and Journal of Genetic Psychology 58 27 44 doi 10 1080 08856559 1941 10534552 History of Department of Psychology NCCentral University Archived from the original on 2020 10 12 Lawson Ellen N Merrill Marlene 1983 The Antebellum Talented Thousandth Black College Students at Oberlin Before the Civil War The Journal of Negro Education 52 2 142 155 doi 10 2307 2295031 ISSN 0022 2984 JSTOR 2295031 Caldwell A B 1921 History of The American Negro And His Institutions North Carolina Edition Atlanta a href Template Citation html title Template Citation citation a CS1 maint location missing publisher link Baumann Roland M 2010 Constructing Black Education at Oberlin College A Documentary History Ohio University Press ISBN 978 0821418871 Ancestry com Cook County Illinois Marriage Index 1930 1960 database on line Provo UT USA Ancestry com Operations Inc 2008 Ohio Historic Inventory No LOR 1771 21 PDF Oberlin Heritage Center Historic Fellows American Association for the Advancement of Science Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title Carol Blanche Cotton amp oldid 1161543437, wikipedia, wiki, book, books, library,
