Word: psychologist
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While in those camps, Cheu witnessed the torture and execution of his friend. Neghio Ngo A psychologist testified that Chau had the most serious case of "Vietnam syndrome" --a catastrophic trauma--that he had ever seen, and said that Chau had assumed the identity of the slain Ngo the night he threw the bomb...
Based on an extensive review of scientific studies made in the past decade, the report concludes that new evidence has "significantly strengthened" the earlier report's findings. Impetus for the new effort came from University of North Carolina Clinical Psychologist Eli A. Rubinstein, who worked on the 1972 study and was disappointed by its small impact on public opinion and network policy. Prompted by a Surgeon General's follow-up report on the dangers of smoking, he proposed an update on the TV study. Said Rubinstein: "It is just as clear-cut that if a large sample...
...born in Denmark and Israel, respectively. His father throws basketballs into Noah's hands from time to time, but predicts that the take will someday be an orthopedic surgeon, Lauren plans to be a dancer, "and a doctor like her mother," who holds a Ph. D. and is a psychologist...
...instruct very young children, even Kemeny's BASIC is much too mathematical. Instead, more and more schools are turning to an innovative computer language called LOGO (from the Greek word for reason), developed by Seymour Papert and his colleagues at M.I.T. A mathematician who studied with the Swiss psychologist Jean Piaget, Papert has become something of a guru of the computer generation, predicting that the machines will revolutionize learning by taking much of the mystery out of mathematics, science and technology. Says he: "The computer can make the most abstract things concrete...
Whether such abilities will change the world for the better is another matter. Princeton Psychologist George Miller, for one, has doubts that "a few years of thinking like a computer can change patterns of irrational thought that have persisted throughout recorded history." Other social critics ask if clear thinking is enough-if, in fact, there might not be a danger in raising a generation to believe that it has the analytical tools to contemplate any problem. Says M.I.T. Computer Science Professor Joseph Weizenbaum: "There's a whole world of real problems...