Word: psychologistic
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...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...
...claims that the book, which has sold 183,000 hardcover copies and is now on the paperback bestseller lists, is half his-the result of collaboration in and out of bed with Author Irene Kassorla during a passionate romance that cooled in June 1978. Kassorla, a fiftyish Bel Air psychologist, admits the affair but denies working with Margolis. Says Margolis plaintively: "She wanted us to become the Masters and Johnson of the '80s." Nonsense, replies Kassorla: "I am a distinguished scientist with impeccable credentials. Mr. Margolis has made no contribution to my book...
...necessity of life. The procedure is required by government (tax forms, food stamps and welfare aid applications) as well as business (insurance policies, loan agreements, product warranties). "Many, if not most of these documents are unclear, inappropriate or incomprehensible to their intended users," says Andrew M. Rose, a psychologist who specializes in document design...
...psychologist at Children's Hospital in Boston and in private practice, Gunnoe catches an occasional Lacrosse game at the same Business School field where he established himself as a Harvard legend. He calls the 1980 team, of which many members are returning this spring, "clearly the class of Harvard lacrosse--they looked very, very talented...
...kind of busman's holiday. Hays is an assistant professor of obstetrics and gynecology at the Baylor College of Medicine and medical director of its lactation clinic. On a typical night call at the clinic, she delivers as many as four new arrivals. She and Husband Ray, 38, a psychologist, have successfully blended hectic careers and child care by unrelenting planning. When she began her residency seven years ago, Hays was already mentally preparing for her first child. The arrangement with her superiors: in the last few months of her third year she would do pathology, a relatively cushy...