Word: behaviorism
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Copped. In Chicago, Patrolman Lynn Scott, author of a manual on the proper behavior of policemen, was arrested for attempting to sell stolen ration books...
Other infantrymen have noted the strange behavior of Ousseltia Valley dogs. Captain Maynard Files reported that a white dog approached his hidden mountain observation post, pointed. A doughboy in a forward foxhole told of groups of three and four dogs roaming the valley in packs. Another soldier said that the dogs seemed to emerge from the same spot as if sent out by a trainer. The southern defeat (see below) postponed a real investigation of the Ousseltia dogs, but American soldiers know that the U.S. Army is also training dogs...
Regarding "Terrorized Teachers," besides the insecurities in their own homes, there are, of course, other reasons why children in New York City schools behave in such a shockingly aggressive manner. Part of the trouble may lie in the mental states, in the attitudes and behavior of the teachers themselves...
When I was attending Public School 45 in New York City, 20 years ago, the pupils hated and frequently expressed desires to kill some of the teachers. Common behavior of pupils: punching teachers in classroom or hallway, throwing board erasers at them, swearing at them with that inimical profanity of New York children...
...Common behavior of teachers: locking a child in a narrow, stuffy clothes closet (I know, I spent many hours there); making him sit under the teacher's desk all day, making a child stand for hours with his feet on the ledge of the blackboard (which holds the chalk) and hold on to an old gas fixture above the blackboard; humiliating, ridiculing, insulting, and degrading a child in front of other children...