Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!usc!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!ncar!hsdndev!rutgers!njin!princeton!pucc!PSYC From: harnad@clarity.Princeton.EDU (Stevan Harnad) Newsgroups: sci.psychology.digest Subject: PSYCOLOQUY V2 #6 (Queries : 157 lines) Message-ID: <9106260403.AA02253@clarity.Princeton.EDU> Date: 25 Jun 91 23:39:47 GMT Sender: VMNNPOST@pucc.Princeton.EDU (Listserv to Netnews Gateway) Organization: Listserv to Netnews Gateway at pucc.Princeton.EDU Lines: 152 Approved: PSYC@PUCC PSYCOLOQUY ISSN 1055-0143 Tue, 25 Jun 91 Volume 2 : Issue 6 General IQ Query: Information on Journals Query: May-December Marriages Query: Word Processing Programs and APA Format Response: Research on Parties Query: Illiteracy and Thinking Skills ---------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Subject: General IQ Dr Michael Howe of Exeter University started a discussion on the existence of a general IQ which is the basis of all IQ tests in the past hundred years. He believes that there is no such thing as general IQ. Human beings possess all kinds of IQ. People with very high IQ in one area may not have equally high IQ in another area and in some cases, they even may have low IQ in other areas. This theory will have very important implications in our live. For example: 1. Do we still recruit civil servants based on their examination results? Will a young man with many As in mathematics be a better policeman/soldier/customer officer than the one with only Bs ? 2. Do we still fail a student if he does not have an overall passing mark ? Say do we still fail a student if he scores A in all subjects exept English ? I must say examination results are very important in our country. If you can pass examinations well, your future is more or less guaranteed as you will be given all kinds of opportunities to excel. This is becuase we believe in a general IQ, ie, if you are good in examination, you have high IQ and hence you will be good in every other aspects. I know something is wrong here. But I do not have the hard facts to prove anything. Can anyone be so kind to provide me with your latest findings in this area? A simple citing of references or comments will be very helpful. Thanks. Lua K T lua kim teng (LUAKT@NUSDISCS.BITNET) National University of Singapore Department of Information Systems and Computer Science ------------------------------ From: SPETERSON@CCNODE%VAXF.Colorado.EDU Subject: Query: Information on Journals For future psychology searches, we are interested in broadening the diversity of potential candidates we can reach with our advertisements. Thus, we hope to place ads not only in the "mainstream" publications like the _Monitor_ and _The Chronicle_, but in other publications as well. We are particularly interested in identifying publications that are of special interest to women and to people of color. Those publications that have been identified so far include: Psychology of Women Quarterly, the newsletter of APA's Division 35, the quarterly newsletter of the Association for Women in Psychology, Journal of Black Psychology, and the Hispanic Journal of Behavioral Sciences. If any of you are aware of other journals and/or newsletters that should be included in our list of future targets, please let me know. Thank you for the help. ------------------------------ From: sharons@juliet.ll.mit.edu Subject: Query: May-December Marriages Anyone out there know of some material on the subject of "May-December" marriages. (Marriages in which one partner, usually the female is considerably younger than the other) Post answers to the net or me directly. Thanks... Sharon Stanfill sharons@juliet.ll.mit.edu ------------------------------ From: TJ0RBM1@NIU.BITNET Subject: Query: Word Processing Programs and APA Format I am interested in word processing programs that facilitate or create documents in APA format. I am aware of Manuscript Manager but understand that it may be pulled from the market; anyway it is copy protected which limits its usefulness to me. Has anyone an opinion of it or any other such program? Randall Martin Department of Psychology Northern Illinois University 815 753 0738 Bitnet: TJ0RBM1@NIU ------------------------------ From: ted sarbin <5211P@NAVPGS.BITNET> Subject: Response: Research on Parties Re: research on parties. Erving Goffman wrote a piece for the New York magazine about 1968 or 1969. He described behavior at parties in an unsystermatic way in several papers and books. Ted Sarbin ------------------------------ From: hpoiss@chaparral.fse.ulaval.ca Subject: Query: Illiteracy and Thinking Skills Dear Mr. or Ms: As a professor in a department of educational psychology, I am now conducting a research project on illiteracy and my team is presently working on a program to develop thinking skills for the illiterate. We are also trying to get information on the existing programs, experimental research, reviews, and other works in this field. Sincerly yours. My address is: Professeur Helene Poissant Departement de Psychopedagogie Bureau 1350 Faculte des Sciences de l'education Universite Laval Quebec, CANADA G1K 7P4 e-mail:hpoiss@CHAPARRAL.FSE.ULAVAL.CA ------------------------------ PSYCOLOQUY is sponsored by the Science Directorate of the American Psychological Association (202) 955-7653 Co-Editors: (scientific discussion) (professional/clinical discussion) Stevan Harnad Perry London, Dean, Cary Cherniss (Assoc Ed.) Psychology Department Graduate School of Applied Graduate School of Applied Princeton University and Professional Psychology and Professional Psychology Rutgers University Rutgers University Assistant Editors: Malcolm Bauer Psychology Department Princeton University End of PSYCOLOQUY Digest ******************************