Based on the research we have considered thus far, two different developmental trends emerge: We see gains in experience-based processes but losses in information-processing abilities. The continued growth in some areas is viewed as a product of lifelong learning. The losses are viewed as an inevitable result of the decline of physiological processes with age. […]
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FEMININITY AND FEMINISM
In the opening pages of ‘Femininity’, the fifth of his New Introductory Lectures (1933), Sigmund Freud poses the ‘riddle of the nature of femininity’ as an unresolved question that ‘people have knocked their heads against’ throughout human history. Commiserating with one sex and winding up the other, Freud goes on, tongue-in-cheek, to separate and gender […]
Pearls and Gore: The Spectacle of. Woman in Life and Death
ANNETTE BURFOOT [ 6 ] Introduction One of the main purposes of this collection is to explore the apparent difference between women who kill and women who are killed. It is the contention of the editors that the distinction between these two aspects of violence is less clear than commonly perceived and is carefully mediated […]
Social marginalisation and racism
All of the above are only a fraction of the problems faced by Somali mothers. Housing has also been identified as a major issue. Families on welfare are asked to provide the name of a co-signer who has an income of Can$50,000 or over. This criteria cannot be met by many Somali single mothers and […]
If the expression of depression Is part of the solution, who Is helping men express depression?
Are men taking responsibility to help themselves express their depression? Hardly. Men are still most likely to buy adventure books, financial journals, and sports magazines that teach men to solve problems, overcome barriers, or repress feelings. There are few men’s shelters, masculist psychologists, men’s crisis lines, or men’s centers. The biggest "men’s center" is San […]
POSTMODERNISM, POST-COLONIALISM, ANTI-RACISM. AND FEMINISM
The intersection of discourses around postmodernism, post-colonialism, antiracism and feminism has provided an intellectually vibrant landscape, facilitating a pluralistic model of resistance which Yeatman has described as ‘interlocking oppressions’. As a result of critiques posed by feminist and subaltern discourses in the 1980s, she contends (1995a:53) that it is possible for ‘multiple oppressed subjects to […]
Secondary Mental Abilities
Because so many primary mental abilities have been identified, some researchers think it may be easier to understand intellectual development by looking at interrelationships among them. Careful consideration of the relationships among the primary mental abilities has resulted in the identification of secondary mental abilities, which are broadranging skills, each composed of several primary abilities […]
Age-Related Changes in Primary Abilities
One of the most important research projects on adult intellectual development is the longitudinal study being conducted by K. Warner Schaie and his colleagues in Seattle, Washington, which began in 1956 as Schaie’s dissertation (Schaie, 1996, 2005). This study has not only uncovered most of what we know about how primary mental abilities change across […]
Mimetic Identifications
The very excessiveness of Homolka’s transgressions raises the possibility of an alternative reading of her case based around Luce Irigaray’s ideas on mimesis. Through its deliberate and subversive assumption of the feminine role in discourse, mimesis aims to thwart the continued subordination of women. Irigaray (1985, 75-76), in using this technique to reveal and speak […]
The Measurement of Intelligence
Because the psychometric approach focuses on the interrelationships among intellectual abilities, the major goal is to describe the ways in which these relationships are organized (Sternberg, 1985). This organization of interrelated intellectual abilities is termed the structure of intelligence. The most common way to describe the structure of intelligence is to picture it as a […]