Word: psychologist
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Stanford Psychologist Eleanor E. Maccoby, surveying "Woman's Intellect," recalled that, statistically, girls are slightly brighter than boys to start with, but in their teens they begin to fall behind boys in analytic facility, which includes mathematics. Mrs. Maccoby correlates this fact with the discovery from various psychological tests that children (boys included) who are protected and discouraged from aggression, independence and initiative tend to be poor at math, while those who are early turned loose on their own to work out their problems without help tend to be better at it. And girls are more likely than boys...
...Rowlands and Steven Hill) self-indulgently refuse for more than five years to admit that they have produced a moron, and then resentfully abandon him in a state school. Crushed by this rejection, Reuben vaguely longs for the parents who let him be a baby and specifically hates the psychologist-headmaster (Burt Lancaster) who demands that he grow up. One day a new teacher comes to the school, an amiable but muddled musician (Judy Garland) who represents the common confusions of feeling about defective children. At first she feels revulsion, then she feels pity, finally she feels love. All three...
...problem of juvenile delinquency, said the chief psychologist of a noted guidance center last night, won't be solved by any one method, but rather "by multiple approaches in multiple areas...
...other hand, the psychologist noted that the "gang" manifestation of delinquency is easy to spot of New York City's East Side, but doesn't exist in a suburban area like Newton. And where gangs are found in Boston, they differ from those of New York in a number of ways...
Like a Pricked Bubble. Even among victims of strokes on the dominant side of the brain, says Psychologist Leonard Diller of New York's Institute of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, there are two drastically different effects, depending on the severity of the brain damage. ''One type," he says, "is like a pricked bubble-after you've pricked it, the bubble isn't there any more. The personality seems to have vanished. The second seems unchanged in basic type, but less efficient...