Word: psychologistic
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...scheduled for the next morning, someone asked students over a loudspeaker to stay off the field lest they tear up the cinders-and they did. As they trooped back across the Charles to the houses, there was the appealing prospect of a weekend of rest to remedy onrushing exhaustion. Psychologist Jerome Bruner evoked the mood. "None of us is blameless and none of us has the whole good," he said. "We're much more conscious of things we believed were peripheral but are not peripheral. People have taken possession of themselves. It is a time to be inventive...
...really knows for sure whether animals in REM sleep actually dream, but they apparently undergo a learning process. University of California Psychologist William Fishbein has found that laboratory mice taught to expect electric shocks at the end of laboratory alleyways develop amnesia about their painful experience after they have been deprived of REM sleep. It is now provable that the more advanced a creature is, the more it can learn-and the more REM sleep it has. Humans in infancy, learning more intensely than they ever will again because everything is new to them, spend 50% of their sleep...
...that man's capacity to solve life's problems correctly is limited by two factors: in extremely complex situations, he is not always capable of mastering all the information, and he does not always decide as logic and reason tell him he should. Beyond human intuition, says Psychologist Ward Edwards, lies an individual's personal calculation of the odds in favor or against. This personal factor, which measures the individual's will to win rather than the mathematical probabilities, must be counted into the risk and the odds...
Ability to Reason. To develop this noninflammatory point, and to weigh the genetic contribution to intelligence, Psychologist Jensen relies heavily on the so-called intelligence test. He defines intelligence, somewhat circularly, as "what intelligence tests measure." In education, he says, what they measure is the subject's adaptability to a system that stresses cognition-the ability to reason-and that is designed for normal, middle-class white children. On this contrived scale, the American black typically registers below the American white-on the average, about 15 IQ points. This information is not very new. Moreover, its insight into...
Jensen's more thoughtful critics concede some validity to this point. "Our educational systems," writes Geneticist Lederberg, "often neglect a child's strongest capabilities, and hold him back while focusing on his weaknesses." J. McVicker Hunt, a psychologist at the University of Illinois, agrees with Jensen that the child's first exposure to formal education is confining when it should be expanding. Says Hunt: "I am among those few who are inclined to believe that mankind has not yet developed and deployed a form of early childhood education (from birth to age five) which permits...