Word: psychologists
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...subtract, multiply and divide, understand fractions and simple algebra, even handle abstract concepts and interpret them creatively"-all before he is five. It was written by Siegfried Engelmann, a research associate at the University of Illinois' Institute for Research on Exceptional Children, and his wife Therese, a psychologist. They argue unconvincingly that such intellectual giants as Goethe, Leibnitz, Mill and Macaulay benefited less from genes than from early teaching, conclude that parents can train their children to become gifted...
...Many Vitamins? Educators and child psychologists are generally skeptical about the home-teaching trend, particularly the teaching of reading. They have little doubt that some parents can teach some three-year-olds and four-year-olds to read-but why should they? "No one has really given any sound reason for doing so," says Psychologist William Kessen of Yale's Child Study Center. Myra Woodruff, recently retired chief of New York State's Bureau of Child Development and Parent Education, believes that the real motivation for many parents to teach their tots is that "it represents status...
Major causes of the high death rate, report Dr. Stanley Mohler, a specialist in aviation medicine, and Psychologist Sheldon Freud, were "risk-taking attitudes and judgments." The two researchers were impressed by "the tendency of many of these physicians to fly at night in inclement weather over dangerous terrain, despite limited or no instrument-flight experience. In most of the weather accidents, the pilots had received official briefings concerning adverse weather, but decided to depart anyway...
...back. Some middle-aged husbands decide that not time, but their wives, are sapping their lives. This is the age of the domestic tirade, à la Virginia Woolf. The wife feels neglected, the husband feels nagged, both feel thoroughly bored with each other. According to Dr. Masters and Psychologist Johnson in Human Sexual Response, there is a marked flagging of male potency in the 40s, but it is not so much physical as psychic impotence...
Such cases are common in an age of increasing divorce. In the current issue of Marriage magazine, an article by French Priest-Psychologist Ignace Lepp suggests that it is time for the church to do something about them. "Does our faithfulness to principles give us the right to ignore the suffering of our brethren?" asks Lepp, who died last month at 56, shortly before his article appeared. "Is it really in the interest of the church to exclude from the Christian community so many men and women involved in invalid marriages...