Researching Carol Cotton
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 | Did you know that in the 1881 UK census there were 7149 people with the Cotton surname? In that year Cotton was ranked number 569 for popularity in the UK. |
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The name Carol means "Joyous song" and is of French origin.
Records of Carol Cotton on Ancestry
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Birth, Death and Marriage Records for Carol Cotton and the Cotton Family Tree
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| Did you know that there are currently 8520 people with the Cotton surname in the UK? Cotton is now ranked number 690 for popularity in the UK. |
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Some Famous People called Carol Cotton
Carol Blanche Cotton
Carol Blanche Cotton (Carol C. Bowie) (August 20, 1904 - November 22, 1971) was an American psychologist.
She was born in the city of Henderson, North Carolina, the only child of John Adams Cotton and Maude (Brooks) Cotton.
Carol Cotton received her bachelor's degree from the Oberlin College, her master's from Columbia University in 1927, and her PhD from Department of Psychology, University Of Chicago in 1939. She was elected to the scientific honor society Sigma Xi.
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. 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. Their resulting hypothesis suggests that these tendencies are most likely due to cortical injuries from spastic children. A neurological diagnosis would be necessary to confirm this study's hypothesis.
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