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2006-01-03
Experiments With Mice, Mazes and Men
San Francisco Chronicle, USA - Dec 10, 2005 Born at the University of Chicago in the first years of the 20th century, behaviorism posited that human actions are unaffected by free will or consciousness
Rebecca Lemov, a lecturer at the University of Washington, has produced a
lively and well-researched history of the human engineering field and its broad
intellectual and social legacy. Lemov nicely structures the book around key
social scientists in the behaviorist movement, most of them psychologists at
Yale's Institute of Human Relations from the 1920s to the 1960s. From John B.
Watson's early (and breathtakingly durable) thesis that animal behavior is an
infallible predictor of human behavior came decades of laboratory studies of
white rats marching around strung out on drugs and shocked into doing this or
that. Then came George Murdoch's effort to amass all knowledge about humankind
in great storerooms of boxes and card catalogs, which, when brought to the
attention of the Defense Department, earned the fusty professor a shiny
commission in the Navy in addition to grants from Uncle Sam. ("[W]e were
repeatedly subject to Jap attack and ambush . ... I really had the time of my
life.")
2005-12-13
How Evolution Evolved
New York Sun (subscription), NY - Nov 18, 2005 It is seen as a grave threat to their doctrine of political behaviorism, which insists that the brain is largely a "blank slate" and can be writ upon by
Beginning this weekend, the American Museum of Natural History presents the first major exhibition celebrating the upcoming 200th anniversary of Darwin's birth and the 150th anniversary of the publication of his "On the Origin of Species." This exhibition, curated by Niles Eldredge (who is also the author of the accompanying text), is the most comprehensive survey any museum has ever offered on Darwin's life and theories. It will allow us to take a close look at the man himself, how his ideas were formed, and how his scientific legacy has so fundamentally changed how we see ourselves in the world.
2005-12-05
Far More Than Creatures of Habit
Los Angeles Times, CA - Nov 28, 2005 A biologist contends that individual tortoises have their own personalities. Such thinking is part of a controversial trend in animal behaviorism.
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2005-12-01
Moral Development, Self, and Identity
Psychiatric Services (subscription) - Nov 8, 2005 The so-called cognitive revolution arose in reaction to the sterile and limited dominance of behaviorism, which used the parallel-processing computer as a
1. "This implacable doctrine": Behaviorism in Wyndham Lewis''s Snooty Baronet
Wyndham Lewis''s 1932 novel Snooty Baronet has received little of the attention that focuses on this spikily provocative writer''s work. Two of the most ...
2. Behaviorism
A theory of human development initiated by American educational psychologist Edward Thorndike, and developed by American psychologists John Watson and B.F. Skinner.
3. BEHAVIORISM FOR NEW PSYCHOLOGY: WHAT WAS WRONG WITH BEHAVIORISM AND WHAT IS WRONG WITH IT NOW
ABSTRACT: The evolution of behaviorism from its explicit beginning with John B. Watson''s declaration in 1913 to the behaviorisms of the present is considered ...
4. WHY PINKER NEEDS BEHAVIORISM: A CRITIQUE OF THE BLANK SLATE
WHY PINKER NEEDS BEHAVIORISM: A CRITIQUE OF THE BLANK SLATE A review of The Blank Slate: The Modern Denial of Human Nature by Steven Pinker. New York: ...
5. Searching for a future for behaviorism: A review of the new behaviorism by John Staddon
In 1933 Edna Heidbreder published her classic book, Seven Psychologies. There she regretted that psychology remained, at that time, a fractionated, ill-fitting ...
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