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Arnold Gesell  

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  • Arnold Lucius Gesell was among the first psychologists to establish quantitative measures of child development, based on his extensive observations of New Haven children, whom he filmed through oneway mirrors in the laboratory. Born 1880 in Alma, Wisconsin, a small town that still refers to him as the most famous graduate of Alma High School, Gesell in 1899 graduated with a bachelor's degree from Steven Point Normal School. [Source: Encyclopedia of Human Development; Gesell, Arnold (1880–1961)]

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