OK, I will accept your gentle chastisement and agree with you. BUT--does it 
really matter what the construct is called? You can call it a cognitive age or 
a mental age, but aren't we talking about the same thing? And I will most 
definitely read your article.
I don't believe anyone has called me "cher Carol" before. Lots of other things, 
but never that. :)





-----Original Message-----
From: Christopher D. Green [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Sun 12/7/2008 8:04 PM
To: Teaching in the Psychological Sciences (TIPS)
Subject: Re: [tips] refiguring IQ
 
DeVolder Carol L wrote:
> OK, I'll bite. Divergently speaking, why does it matter what you call it? 
> It's still the same construct.
>   

Au contraire, cher Carol! "Cognitive" was developed with the express 
intention of excluding those parts of "the mental" which were not 
subject to a certain kind of logical analysis (e.g., the ones that had 
caused so much trouble in the early part of the 20th century, such 
"consciousness.") Read my article: 
http://www.yorku.ca/christo/papers/cog-orig.htm (Of course, you're 
correct that most psychologists were never fully clued in to this 
critical distinction, and often used them synonymously).

Chris Green
York U.
Toronto

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