Word: mentalism
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...they knew and said at the time, I.Q. is not a scale of such human intelligence, but something very different: it expresses the relationship between a so-called "mental age" and the chronological age of a child in development (as a ratio, hence the name "intelligence quotient"). The technique was conceived and designed to test children, not adults. The notion that such a ratio makes for comparison among adults was and is ridiculous. This is clear especially from looking at the capacities of exceptionally intelligent adults: comparing the I.Q.'s of, say, Einstein, Judge Brandeis and the theologian Paul Tillich...
...then, measures not intelligence in adults, but something else, namely chronological age versus mental age, or better, "developmental age," in children: the psychological development at a given chronological age. Since the rate and scope of such development varies enormously in the population, I.Q. can change over time: persons do not have a fixed I.Q. from birth to death, nor do all children even from childhood through adolescence. The ten-year-old with an I.Q. of 100 may score 120 by the end of adolescence; the child with an I.Q. of 130 may drop to 120 by age eighteen. Beyond late...
...brief point during the past summer, even former Attorney General Elliot L. Richardson came to question President Nixon's mental condition. In his characteristically elegant, self-assured tones, Richardson told the Senate Judiciary Committee last week: "There was a period around early July when I felt the President showed considerable sense of strain...
...similar techniques had been used, that had been committed in Arizona in October. One of the men was a 22-year-old drifter from The Bronx named Douglas Gretzler, and the other was Willie Steelman, 28, who lived near Victor. Steelman, who had once been briefly confined in a mental hospital, had a long record of scrapes with the law and had served time in prison for forgery...
...years. The day after Gretzler and Steelman were arrested, Edmund Emil Kemper III, who stands 6 ft. 9 in. and weighs 280 Ibs., was sentenced to life imprisonment for his most recent murders. When he was 15, Kemper killed his grandparents but later was released from a California state mental hospital, whereupon he began murdering a series of student hitchhikers. He ended by killing his mother Kemper decapitated seven of his eight victims, including his mother...