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(PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2021 APA, all rights reserved).Individuals with Attention-Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) consistently exhibit a stronger preference for immediate rewards than for larger rewards available following a delay on tasks measuring choice impulsivity (CI). Despite this, however, there remains a dearth of studies examining the impact of stimulant treatment on CI as well as associated higher order (e.g., working memory [WM]) and perceptual (e.g., time perception) cognitive processes. The present study examines the effect of osmotic release oral system methylphenidate (OROS-MPH) on CI, WM and time perception processes as well as the relation among these processes before and after taking a regimen of OROS-MPH. Thirty-five children (aged 7-12 years) with a diagnosis of ADHD participating in a concurrent stimulant medication study were recruited to complete computerized assessments of CI, WM, and time perception. Children completed the assessments after administration of a placebo as well as their lowest effective dose of OROS-MPH following a 2-week titration period. The results from one-sample t-tests indicated that OROS-MPH improves both CI and WM in youth with ADHD but does not impact time perception. Further, results revealed no significant association among the various indices of cognitive performance while taking placebo or OROS-MPH. Overall, the findings suggest that while OROS-MPH improves both CI and WM in youth with ADHD, improvements in CI as a result of OROS-MPH are unlikely to be associated with the improvements in WM given the lack of association among the two. click here Future studies should consider alternate cognitive, emotional, and motivational mechanisms that may account for the impact of OROS-MPH on CI. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2021 APA, all rights reserved).Presents an obituary for Lorraine “Laurie” D. Eyde (1932-2019). Lorraine “Laurie” Dittrich Eyde was born February 20, 1932, in New York City, New York, and grew up in Queens, New York. She died peacefully on July 10, 2019, in Arlington, Virginia. Laurie received her bachelor’s degree in 1953 from Tufts University and doctorate in industrial/organizational psychology in 1959 from The Ohio State University. She married the botanist Richard Eyde in 1957 and they spent 1960-1961 in Lucknow, India. In 1961, Laurie and Richard moved to theWashington, DC, area, and Laurie began a more-than-50-year career in public service, first at the U.S. Department of Health, Education, and Welfare and, from 1971, as a personnel research psychologist at the U.S. Office of Personnel Management (OPM). At OPM, she found a mentor in Ernest S. Primoff and went on to work with him on the job element method, one of the first job analysis approaches to focus on workers’ competencies. Laurie’s doctoral thesis compared attitudes toward wor on Women in Psychology. She was also a charter fellow of the American Psychological Society and served on its board of directors. Laurie is survived by her son Dana and granddaughter, Rosemary. She was predeceased by her husband, Richard Eyde, and son Douglas. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2021 APA, all rights reserved).Presents an obituary for Peter F. Merenda (1922-2019). Peter received his bachelor of science in math and physics and master of arts in education at Tufts, where he was also in the Navy Reserve Officers’ Training Corps. He became an ensign and served in the Navy during World War II. After the war he served as director of research at the Naval Training Center and earned his PhD in counseling and statistics at the University of Wisconsin in 1957. In 1960, Peter cofounded the Departments of Psychology and Computer Science/Statistics at the University of Rhode Island. He was chair of psychology for 12 years at the University of Rhode Island and president of the New England Psychological Association (NEPA), the Rhode Island Psychological Association (RIPA), and the International Council of Psychologists (ICP) as well as chair of ICP conventions in Norway, East and West Germany, England, and Paris. And Peter was a captain in the Navy, a position of which he was particularly proud. Inspired, in part, by his Siciliannda was a remarkable individual who lived an extraordinary life, impacting people far and wide. In his 97-plus years, Peter accomplished much and gave back much to others- his family, friends, colleagues, students, community, country, and internationally. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2021 APA, all rights reserved).Presents an obituary for Harry C. Triandis (1926 -2019). Harry Charalambos Triandis, universally acknowledged as the father of cross-cultural social psychology as well as a leader of industrial/organizational and attitude research, passed away at his retirement home in Carlsbad, California, on June 1, 2019, in his 93rd year. Harry’s academic career began in Montreal, Canada, where he enrolled in the Engineering Program at McGill University. Triandis received his master’s degree in commerce from the University of Toronto, and then earned his doctorate in social psychology from Cornell University. He then joined the faculty at the University of Illinois where he remained until retirement in 1997. Early on, Harry realized that cross-cultural research had to employ different methods if the results were to be valid. Valid cross-cultural research, he reasoned, required the involvement of colleagues from the cultures being studied at every step in the process, including instrument design, hypothesis specification an and the Otto Klineberg Award from the Society for the Psychological Study of Social Issues to name a few. Harry served as president of six associations or societies of psychology, and his colleagues and students unanimously endorse his status as a world class scholar, but also a world class human being who will be deeply missed in the field of psychology. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2021 APA, all rights reserved).Turner et al. (2021) subtly relapse in conceptualizing the Examination for Professional Practice in Psychology (Part 2-Skills) exam as a competency evaluation despite Association of State and Provincial Psychology Boards’ (ASPPB) prior concession that Part 2 measures only the knowledge of skills (not skill competency). They do not address the purpose of redundant evaluation or the other concerns raised in Callahan et al. (2020). Instead, Turner et al. remain narrowly focused on defense of content validity and a reliance on outdated standards that fail to meet contemporary expectations for assessment of health care professionals. The adopted processes and procedures, albeit time consuming and effortful, are known to be methodologically inadequate. ASPPB’s methods demonstrably foster linguistic biases and systemic racism that constricts licensure of diverse individuals as psychologists. Specific suggestions are offered, and ASPPB is urged to take drastic corrective action. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2021 APA, all rights reserved).