Word: verbalizations
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...soon as the words were out of my mouth, Harrison launched into a verbal barrage against me. "That's the problem--you're just like those people up in the stands. You don't know anything about the game and you criticize me." He explained why he thought I was wrong. I raised another question and he stood up from his chair and exclaimed. "I'm the coach here; I have been in the game for 40 years...
...aptitude as well as in interest, sex differences become apparent early in life. Though girls are generally less adept than boys at mathematical and spatial reasoning, they learn to count sooner and to talk earlier and better. Some scientists think this female verbal superiority may be caused by sex-linked differences in the brain. Others believe it may exist because, as observation proves, mothers talk to infant girls more than to baby boys. But does the mother's talking cause the child to do likewise, or could it be the other way round? Psychologist Michael Lewis suggests the possibility...
Evidence that parental behavior does affect speech comes from tests made by Kagan among poor Guatemalan children. There, boys are more highly valued than girls, are talked to more and become more verbal. In the U.S., Psychiatrist David Levy has found that boys who are atypically good with words and inept with figures have been overprotected by their mothers. Psychologist Elizabeth Bing has observed that girls who excel at math and spatial problems have often been left to work alone by their mothers, while highly verbal girls have mothers who offer frequent suggestions, praise and criticism...
...type test in selecting Boston policemen, based himself in Herrnstein's article as an authority. The case was brought by unsuccessful black and Puerto Rican applicants for policemen's jobs. Applicants from these groups failed the general intelligence type test disproportionately, and Judge Wyzanski wrote:" ...discriminatory consequences of this verbal, academic, multiple-choice type test were foreseeable by sophisticated persons. See, Richard Herrnstein, I.Q...." In this case the Herrnstein article served to expand opportunities for those who do poorly on I.Q. tests, not the reverse. Nathan Glazer Professor of Education and Social Structure
...contrast, mean verbal S A T scores of high school senior have declined over the same period from 471 (out of a possible...