Word: mentality
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Solipsism is the belief that the whole world is me, and as Mathematician Martin Gardner points out, its authentic version is not to be found outside mental institutions. What is to be found outside the asylum is its philosophic cousin, the belief that the whole world is like me. This species of solipsism-plural solipsism, if you like-is far more common because it is far less lonely. Indeed, it yields a very congenial world populated exclusively by creatures of one's own likeness, a world in which Lincoln pines for his dinner with André or, more consequentially...
...relationship with its mother. (And/or its father, and/or what the linguistically liberated call the "caregiver.") She must not only feed it, and love it, but endlessly talk to it, play games with it, show it what is happening in the world. Rutgers' Lewis has tested 100 babies for mental development at three months and recorded their mothers' response to the infants' signs of distress. He was hardly surprised to find that those who had been more warmly cared for had learned more by the time they were retested at the age of one year. This kind...
...document where a baby may be unable to pick up sensory data; we can spot abnormalities in the emotional areas," says Stanley Greenspan, chief of the Clinical Infant Research Unit of the National Institute of Mental Health in Adelphi, Md. "There is no evidence that an infant's emotional problems are self-corrective. The environment that contributed to early damage will continue to contribute if one does not intervene...
These physical and social achievements have long been obvious: any mother can see them in her own children. What the new research demonstrates is that babies' mental growth can be as early and as striking as the rest of its development. Robert Cooper, a psychologist with Southwest Texas State University, is even testing a group of ten- to twelve-month-old children on their ability to recognize different numbers. They can master up to four, but he adds that "beyond four, there's some controversy." By showing his little subjects various groups of objects, Cooper demonstrates that they...
...daughter locked away in his gothic manse. Meanwhile, no one seems to be paying much attention to books, lectures, homework or grades. That is because Alden University exists only in a mythical grove called Soapland and in the mind of a woman who creates worlds that flicker on the mental screens of millions...