[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > why is the term "Mental age" used instead of "Cognitive age"? I don't know with certainty, but I suspect it was because no one was defensive about using the term "mental" back in 1905 when Binet came up with the phrase. "Cognitive" only started being used by psychologists (with any regularity) in the 1950s. George Miller says it was because they thought "mental psychology" sounded redundant (they were trying to break away from the beahaviorists, but they were trying to stay away from the old battles about consciousness). It led to some confusion, however, because analytic philosophers were already using the term "cognitive" to refer to propositions that are either true or false. I wrote an article about this several years ago -- "Where Did the Word 'Cognitive' Come From Anyway?" http://www.yorku.ca/christo/papers/cog-orig.htm
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