Word: behaviorally
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...novel notions advanced by the late Dr. Alfred Kinsey, few were more startling than his contention that sexual frigidity is no longer any great problem for U.S. women. In his best-selling Sexual Behavior in the Human Female, based on interviews with 5.940 women, Kinsey came up with figures indicating that 66% of all U.S. married women experienced orgasm in sexual relations with their husbands at least half the time. Fortnight ago, at a meeting of the Academy of Psychosomatic Medicine, Kinsey's happy conclusion came under heavy fire...
...housed in a two-story red brick building that looks like any other elementary school in the land. The big difference lies in the premise on which Hansen has founded Amidon: "The main purpose of organized education is to cultivate the basic subjects as the building blocks of intelligent behavior...
...positive results of Slack's perimenter-subject program over past three years certainly justify radical departure in the basic of dealing with delinquents. crucial point is that rehabilitation the individual delinquents is not direct objective of the program. aims are rather 1) research in the and behavior of delinquents order to reduce crime and 2) more portant, getting the youth to a regular activity in his life--a job. "These kids don't need recreational facilities as much as they need hard work," Slack claims. The boy is a paid and voluntary subject in a research project, not the patient...
...move successfully into the dominant American middle class life. He tried straightening his hair, and even bleaching his skin. But the guaranteed preparations didn't quite work. And so the Negro, albeit unconsciously, sought to convince the white that even if his appearance would never be white, his behavior did not conform to the stereotype of the sexually licentious, Knife-wielding darkie. In the fact of so little opportunity for mutual contact and understanding a spectacular tactic was called...
Worst of all for children, says Goodman, progressive education has been perverted into 'life adjustment.' What must be revived is: experiment to learn theory, permissiveness in all animal behavior, emphasis on individual differences, taking youth seriously as an age in itself, community of youth and adult minimizing "authority," and emphasis in the curriculum of real problems of wider society...