Word: mentalism
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...legislation could be a staggering blow to the economy, which is already burdened with an unemployment rate of 6.9% and inflation of 6.5%, and is expected to face some trouble in 1979. Said Thomas Dernburg, senior economist for the Congressional Joint Economic Committee: "The vote was an amazing mental flipflop. No one would consider raising the income tax with the economy in this state...
Smart little computers provide mental aerobics Ding, ding, ding, ding, ding!" The sound of a fire bell, imitated flawlessly and gleefully by a high-pitched human voice, informs the neighborhood that Moppet has conquered Machine. They are well matched: Lizie is small, going on eleven, with brightly lit hazel eyes. The vanquished mechanism is a small desktop computer called Comp IV, new this year at under $40, with flashing red lights...
...distinguish truly retarded students from laggards with hidden ability, Binet developed a series of exercises involving completion of pictures and the assembling of objects, as well as problems in math, vocabulary and reasoning. To score the test, an equation was devised that divided a child's mental age-as determined by the test -by his chronological age, thus producing an "intelligence quotient." If a six-year-old child was thinking like most other six-year-olds, for example, his IQ was 100. If he was thinking like an eight-year...
...sometimes a marked change from one year to the next. Many experts even question how much IQ scores have to do with intelligence. Few support Harvard Psychologist Richard Herrnstein's position that intelligence is primarily an innate ability, rather than an evolving capacity resulting from the interplay of mental quickness and environmental conditioning. It is also possible that such personal traits as drive and persistence-factors that IQ tests cannot measure-are as important as inherent reasoning ability. Furthermore, most psychologists agree that the tests are biased in favor of middle-class children (blacks as a group score...
...consequence, straight IQ tests are being gradually abandoned in favor of tests that claim merely to measure academic ability. McGraw-Hill, for example, is quietly retiring its old standby, the California Test of Mental Maturity, to avoid "identifying a child with a fixed number." Instead, the firm is promoting a new Short Form Test of Academic Aptitude. It reports verbal and nonverbal scores separately, rather than one intelligence quotient-although a mental-age score is still available upon request...