Word: terman
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...child was phenomenally good at one thing it was assumed that he lacked other faculties. Heavy-duty thinkers wrote treatises to prove that a child's mental ability should develop at the orthodox rate if he was to have a well-rounded maturity. These nonsensical ideas, says Dr. Terman, have abated somewhat but have by no means vanished...
...Terman picked out, on the basis of I. Q. tests, some 1,300 gifted youngsters from about a quarter of a million California school children. Thus each child selected was the pick of about one in 190. Dr. Terman's requirement was an I. Q. of 140 or more (average for the chosen children was around 150). Dr. Terman was not interested in objections to the I. Q. as a measure of real intelligence -whether the I. Q. is an accurate measure or not, it gave him something...
Immediately the investigator blew up three fallacies: 1) that smart children tend to be frail; 2) that girls are smarter than boys; 3) that smart children are "onesided." Medical and anthropometric tests showed that Terman's group was healthier, and, in general, physiologically superior to the average. In the grade-school section the ratio of bright boys to bright girls was 6-to-5, in the high-school section 2-to-1. As a group the bright kids showed versatility in information and school activity...
...boys & girls grew older, now range from 22 to 37, with the average over 30. "Terman's Kids" are famed, among psychologists, the world over: for Terman and his field workers have kept tabs on them, issued progress reports from time to time...
...group includes a physical scientist and a physiologist who are university department heads; a 32-year-old aeronautical engineer who is coordinator of research in a $10,000,000 laboratory; also jazz-band players, ghost writers, radio announcers, a fox farmer, a rare-stamp dealer, a cop. Half of Terman's boys entered professions, with the law leading. They have written dozens of books, hundreds of short stories, poems, articles. They have taken out more than 80 patents...