Word: psyching
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...have a strategy for the Heps; I've thought a lot about it and I know it's right. The only thing now is that I hope I don't think about my Heptagonals' strategy so much that I psych myself...
...Scoffer thinks of exams and papers as jousts between himself and the grader. He tries to please the grader, to "psych him out," to catch his fancy with a gimmick. A typical Scofer ploy is to make a highly improbable comparison: "What Charles Dickens has in common with Channel...
Prof. Voltaire. At the University of Michigan, fraternity houses are stocked with not only old exams but also "teacher psych-outs"-dossiers compiled by A-students on professors' likes and dislikes. This allows con men to lug around the profs favorite magazine, or to ape his lingo. If this fails, says a recent Michigan graduate, there is the "welfare approach" of pretending poverty by wearing "hand-pressed khaki pants" and asking the professor on the very first-day "Ah, how much did you say that textbook was?" As a Wisconsin con man puts it: "These days...
...elevators again. You and a psychiatrist step inside, and press buttons. You wait, and look at each other suspiciously. Suddenly the psych screams "these goddam things" and starts jumping up and down. You wonder if he is some kind of nut. Breathing heavily, he explains that the only way to get upstairs is by jumping...
...three agreed that the American educational system and community encourage widespread intellectual apathy. From first grade through college, the successful student is the one who can "psych out the teacher or exam," in Alpert's opinion. The student is guided not by curiosity or intellectual motivation, but by desire for a superior grade...