This award recognizes a distinguished career and enduring contribution to applications of psychology. Frederick Morrison, PhD, is recognized for pioneering research linking psychology and education. He was one of the first psychologists to utilize the information-processing approach to study childhood reading disorders, demonstrating that dyslexic children do not suffer primarily from a visual-perceptual deficit but from a language-based phonological coding problem. He discovered and exploited a natural experiment, termed school cutoff, to study the causal impact of early schooling on children's language, cognitive, social, and academic skills. His findings confirmed the critical role of instructional practices on children's growth but also that the most effective instruction varied with the skill level of the child. Based on these insights, with colleague Carol Connor, Morrison developed and implemented an intervention to individualize student instruction, confirming that children benefit from different types of instruction. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2021 APA, all rights reserved).

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APF 心理学应用终身成就金奖：Frederick J. Morrison。

该奖项旨在表彰杰出的职业生涯和对心理学应用的持久贡献。弗雷德里克·莫里森 (Frederick Morrison) 博士因将心理学和教育联系起来的开创性研究而受到认可。他是最早利用信息处理方法研究儿童阅读障碍的心理学家之一，证明阅读障碍儿童的主要问题不是视觉感知缺陷，而是基于语言的语音编码问题。他发现并利用了一项名为学校停课的自然实验来研究早期教育对儿童语言、认知、社交和学术技能的因果影响。他的发现证实了教学实践对儿童成长的关键作用，而且最有效的教学因儿童的技能水平而异。基于这些见解，莫里森与同事卡罗尔康纳一起制定并实施了一项干预措施，以个性化学生教学，确认儿童从不同类型的教学中受益。（PsycInfo 数据库记录 (c) 2021 APA，保留所有权利）。