Word: behaviorist
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Unless the Martian is very much mistaken and it is here that he does resemble somewhat the boy who noticed something wrong with the king--it appears to him that while the prevailing behaviorist theory has been dismantled, no other theory has been advanced to take its place, this in spite of all the talk by transformationalists about "explanatory models...
...plagued by "destructive emotions," but judging from his behavior, Skinner is still deeply concerned by "what people will think." His most recent book, About Behaviorism, is not only a behaviorist primer for non-professionals, it is also a direct answer to several years of criticism--criticism which negatively reinforced him to write such a book...
...father who hobnobbed with J.P. Morgan and James J. Hill, was "operative" in his decision to become a socialist, Humanist, civil libertarian and world pacifist. True to form, just as throughout this compendium of essays Lamont attacks determinism in any name, shape and form (Christian theistic, Marxist economic, Skinnerian behaviorist, even shades he sights in Dewey's naturalistic), he dismisses Freudian psychology as the explanation for his very un-patrician life choices. Rather, Lamont places a premium on just such choices--life choice, free will, individual accountability. From there, he spins a personal philosophy of "naturalistic humanism," scientific, rational, ethical...
...with proper conditioning, would be gentle, peaceful and loving? Perhaps the most notable advocate of the "instinctivist" theory is Konrad Lorenz (On Aggression), co-winner of the 1973 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine. Lorenz found instinctive aggression in animals and suggested that man is similarly programmed by evolution. Behaviorist B.F. Skinner, conversely, has long argued that man can be conditioned to forsake his violent ways. Now Erich Fromm, 73, social philosopher, psychoanalyst and bestselling author (The Sane Society, The Art of Loving), has written a new book, The Anatomy of Human Destruction (Holt, Rinehart & Winston; $10.95), that challenges both...
...terms of sheer size and duration, Britain's National Child Development Study is a behaviorist's dream. For 15 years this unique program has been periodically measuring the growth and maturation of every child who was born in England, Scotland and Wales from the third through the ninth of March 1958. Thus the National Children's Bureau, which was set up in 1963 with both private and public funding, has been working on an ideally random sample of more than 15,000 children from every kind of home and background...