astronomy

Martha Mednick

Martha Mednick is a astronomy topic covered in the lgStudy science library. This page brings together a partial reference excerpt, illustrations, worked examples, real-world applications and a short study plan, so you can understand Martha Mednick rather than just read about it. In short: Martha Tamara Shuch Mednick (March 31, 1929 – August 16, 2020) was a feminist psychologist known for her work on women, gender, race and social class. She was a professor of psychology at Howard University from 1968 until her retirement in 1995.

Key takeaways

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Reference excerpt

Martha Tamara Shuch Mednick (March 31, 1929 – August 16, 2020) was a feminist psychologist known for her work on women, gender, race and social class. She was a professor of psychology at Howard University from 1968 until her retirement in 1995. Mednick played a key role in the founding of the Society for the Psychology of Women (American Psychological Association (APA), Division 35) by organizing the APA Ad Hoc Task Force on the Status of Women, which established the Society in 1973. Mednick served as President of the Society for the Psychology of Women from 1976 to 1977. Mednick served as President of the Society for the Psychological Study of Social Issues (SPSSI) from 1980 to 1982. In 2009 Mednick received the NCMS Distinguished Elders Award from the Society of Counseling Psychology (APA, Division 17). The NCMS award honors individuals who advocate for justice and human rights.

Biography Mednick was born into a working class Jewish family in New York City. Her parents were immigrants from Russia and Poland. Mednick graduated from Evander Childs High School in the Bronx and was the first in her family to attend college. She believed education had the power to change one's life and began studying psychology at City College of New York. At the time, City College was mostly a male engineering school that allowed some women to attend. Mednick graduated with a Bachelor of Science in education, and continued her education at Northwestern University where she earned a PhD in Clinical Psychology in 1955. Around this time, she married Sarnoff A. Mednick and started a family. Mednick collaborated with her husband on studies of associative priming, and developed the Remote Associates Test as a test of creative potential. The family moved several times, with Mednick taking on varied positions, which included work with autistic children at the Harvard University Research Laboratory, and research and teaching positions at the University of California, Berkeley and at the University of Michigan. Mednick divorced her husband in 1964. She moved to Washington, D.C. in 1968 where she joined the psychology department at Howard University. At Howard, Mednick met Sandra Tangri and together published an issue called "New Perspectives on Women" which later appeared as the book "Woman and achievement: Social and motivational analysis." Mednick was also important in initiating contact between American and Israeli feminist psychologists. Her “Social Change and Sex Role Inertia: The Case of the Kibbutz” exposed the myth of sexual equality on kibbutzim. Mednick also organized the first international, interdisciplinary conference on women at the University of Haifa in December 1981 with Marilyn Safir, which culminated in the 1985 volume "Women’s worlds: From the new scholarship". Mednick died on August 16, 2020, after a lengthy battle with cancer.

Books Mednick, M. T., Tangri, S. S., & Hoffman, L. W. (1975). Women and achievement: Social and motivational analysis. Hemisphere Publishing Corporation. Safir, M. P., Mednick, M. T., Israeli, D., & Bernard, J. (1985).Women’s worlds: From the new scholarship. Praeger.

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External links Jewish Women's Association biography

Worked examples

Example 1 — a first encounter with Martha Mednick

Start with the simplest possible case. Write down what Martha Mednick claims or describes in one sentence, then invent the smallest concrete situation in which that sentence is true. In astronomy, the smallest case is usually a single object, a single equation or a single measurement. Check that every symbol or term in your sentence has a meaning in that case.

Example 2 — changing one variable

Take the situation from Example 1 and change exactly one quantity: double it, halve it, or set it to zero. Predict what should happen to Martha Mednick before you calculate. Comparing your prediction with the result is the fastest way to find out whether you understand the idea or only the words.

Example 3 — an exam-style question

Typical questions about Martha Mednick ask you to (a) state it precisely, (b) apply it to given data, and (c) explain a limitation. Practise writing all three answers in under five minutes; the third part is what separates a full-mark answer from an average one.

Applications of Martha Mednick

In research: Martha Mednick appears in astronomy research whenever the underlying quantities have to be modelled precisely. Papers usually cite it as a starting assumption and then explore where it breaks down.
In technology and industry: Engineering practice reuses Martha Mednick in design rules, simulations and safety margins. Knowing the idea lets you read a specification sheet and understand why the numbers look the way they do.
In the classroom: Martha Mednick is common in secondary-school and first-year university syllabi. It links to neighbouring topics 1929 births, 2020 deaths, 20th-century American psychologists, so understanding it makes those chapters shorter.
In everyday life: Look for Martha Mednick outside the textbook — in sport, cooking, traffic, electronics or the sky above you. An example you found yourself is remembered far longer than one you were given.

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How to study Martha Mednick in 20 minutes

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Frequently asked questions

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Because it connects several astronomy ideas at once: it gives you a definition you can apply, a quantity you can calculate, and a way to check whether a result is plausible.

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Read the excerpt, restate it from memory, then work through the examples and applications listed on this page. The five-step study plan above takes about twenty minutes.

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