Word: psychologist
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...change people." The reason, he says, is that schools cannot control the factors that most determine test scores: heredity and home environment. Jencks believes that genes play a significant role in determining IQ, though he does not assign to them the overwhelming importance found by Berkeley Psychologist Arthur Jensen. Just how do genes influence the IQ? Only partly by predetermining the ability to learn, says Jencks. Genes also affect the environment in which a child develops, a factor ignored by traditional methods of estimating genetic influences. "If, for example, a nation refuses to send children with red hair to school...
...procedure itself is not new. Doctors have used a similar technique to obtain samples of uterine tissue for 50 years. Harvey Karman, a Los Angeles psychologist, pioneered it as a less painful abortion technique ten years ago. Militant Women's Liberationists have been using menstrual extraction in small "selfhelp" clinics for more than a year as a means of preventing "male control" over their bodies...
...retarded or emotionally disturbed. In San Diego, attorneys representing 20 black and Mexican-American student plaintiffs argued that the city's Unified School System had no right to make such placements on the basis of standard IQ tests designed for white middle-class students. Retesting by an outside psychologist indicated that all but two of the children were actually of at least average intelligence and the exceptions were borderline cases. The school district did not admit fault, but it did agree to a settlement, approved by the U.S. District Court, under which 2,500 improperly placed students will receive...
...other employees, 37 had stolen goods to sell on the outside, and 28 had stolen cash or checks. One man had forged and cashed an entire payroll. Although the average age of the subjects was only 23, they had already been on drugs for about six years. Says Psychologist Stephen Levy, T.F.L.'s research director: "It appears that more and more drug abusers are coming into the work force from high schools and colleges where they have been exposed to and participated in the academic drug scene...
Although 28 of the addicts had eventually been fired, not one employer gave drug abuse as the cause of dismissal. To Psychologist Levy, this indicates "a high degree of ignorance on the part of employers and supervisors about drug abuse on the work premises, an unwillingness to face up to the problem, or a combination of both...