Word: behaviorists
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...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...
...seemed like an extraordinary display of chimp intelligence, but retired Harvard Psychologist B.F. Skinner was certain that creatures much lower in the evolutionary pecking order could be conditioned to communicate in a similar way. Now the famed behaviorist and two of his students have published convincing evidence in Science to support his controversial belief...