Word: psychologist
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...cognitive psychologist, Atkinson has no specialized training in psychometrics, though he has researched mathematical models of memory. He says he favors achievement over aptitude tests partly because his university's research shows that the SAT II subject-based tests are just as good at predicting success at U.C. as the regular SAT. "When I saw that data," he says, "that was the nail in the coffin." But according to an exhaustive 2002 College Board study, the most accurate predictor of success in college--at U.C. and everywhere else--is a combination of high school grades, SAT scores...
...Psychologist Robert Sternberg's first field study in intelligence took place in grade school, when poor scores on IQ tests convinced him he was a "dum-dum." Largely thanks to an exceptional fourth-grade teacher, Sternberg managed to shed his self-doubt, improve his grades and go on to attend Yale University, but he never shook the sense that traditional tests are missing something. "You don't get to the top in life just on your IQ points or your SAT score," says Sternberg, now a professor at Yale and president of the American Psychological Association (APA). "You have...
...other day. The thing that surprised me today is the consistency of people you haven’t spoken to in 30 years, and that you can locate them with great familiarity,” said Janna E. Malamud Smith ’73, who is now a psychologist and author. “It pulls you back into your own past and theirs...
...Michael Gerner, a consulting psychologist who specializes in internationally mobile children, estimates that 5% of kids may actually be genetically predisposed to resist change: "These are kids that cried when the nursery door slammed." The good news, though, is that the experience can ultimately be positive. In the early 1990s, Gerner's research comparing more than 1,000 students in Egypt, Thailand and the U.S. verified what everyone knew anecdotally: children growing up in different countries are more open to other cultures and languages and are less apt to stereotype...
...Dwelling on the Grief Pico Iyer, in his commentary "Move On," advised Americans to recover from their grief over 9/11 [Sept. 15]. Although this might be considered good advice from a psychologist, it is folly from a national-policy point of view. The U.S. was not attacked by a troublemaker from whom we should simply turn away. This is a war, not an academic debate over cultural norms or schoolyard bullies. Iyer said we should learn something from the Japanese, who embraced their conquerors. He forgot that they did so only after years of brutal war and a total defeat...