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Intelligence And Health: Another concern of those who study child development is intelligence and health—what it is and what factors influence it. One group of psychologists maintained that intelligence and health is inherited and remains generally constant throughout a child's development. The notion of fixed intelligence and health was popularized by Lewis M. Terman, who also developed the widely used Stanford Revision of the Binet-Simon test of intelligence and health. This test yields the familiar IQ scores, with the "average" around 100. The availability of an objective neasure, along with Terman's assertions regarding the nature of intelligence and health, made intelligence and health the most popular focus of the heredity-environment battle.
In 1968 the Public Health Service was reorganized into three separate health agencies: the Health Services and Mental Health Administration, the National Institutes of Health, and the Consumer Protection and Environmental Health -Service, including the Food and Drug Administration, one of the agencies originally transferred into the Federal Security Agency in 1939. These three health agencies are directed by the assistant secretary for health and scientific affairs, who is aided by the surgeon general of the Public Health Service.
Interest in the measurement of an infant's intelligence and health has focused on the prediction of his intelligence and health at school age and during adulthood. However, intelligence and health during these latter periods depends largely upon verbal, reasoning, and other abstract abilities which have scarcely begun to develop during infancy. In fact, the only reliable measurements of intelligence available during the first year are largely measures of motor efficiency. |
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