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...Skinner, the 81-year-old Pierce Professor of Psychology Emeritus, is known as a radical behaviorist who rebelled against the hypothetical approach to the science of behavior. His experimental approach led to his development of what came to be known as the "Skinner Box," a controlled environment that allowed him to record behavioral patterns...
...year-old Skinner, a native of Susquehanna, Penn., is known as a radical behaviorist who rebelled against the hypothetical approach to the science of behavior. His experimental approach led his development of what came to be known as the "Skinner Box," a controlled environment that allowed him to record behavioral patterns...
...research to human behavior. As a cognitist, he is interested in internal thought processes. But Herrnstein does not reject behavioral psychology and investigates as well the relationship between the environment of a person or animal and its observable behavior. Herrnstein calls himself eclectic: "I am a little bit of behaviorist and cognitist, but my experiments are more inclined towards those of a behaviorist...
...Animal Behaviorist Benjamin Beck of the University of Illinois at Chicago calls attention to still another human delusion, the species bias. Says he jokingly: "On tests for giraffes, where intelligence might be equated with neck length, humans test out below horses and ostriches...
...close-minded." However, Freudian analysis, unlike Pavlov's behaviorist ideas, has never taken hold in the Soviet Union, although the Georgian Academy of Sciences recently sponsored a symposium on the concept of the unconscious. In the U.S.S.R., talk therapy or "rational psychotherapy," is mostly a series of admonishing lectures. The doctor listens to the patient, then tells him how he ought to behave. If the complaint is deemed too trivial-anxiety, or mild depression-a patient may be told not to come back at all. Hypnosis is often used by doctors to encourage healthier behavior, like trying...