Word: behaviorism
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...infant anatomy or behavior, but the President's ignorance of modern diaper service, was the crux of the story...
...York's gilded age, Tuxedo Park was the haven of Manhattan blue bloods to whom wealth was secondary to family and good behavior. Bad behavior was left to the swells-the glamor boys & girls of the day, who wrapped favors in $100 bills, cheered when naked ladies popped out of pies, and swarmed to James Hazen Hyde's notorious $200,000 party at Sherry's. Host Hyde, dogged by unfavorable publicity, fled to Europe, where he lived for 35 years. At Tuxedo Park no lady ever popped...
...There remains however among the happenings met with in such a compound organism as ourselves," says Sherrington, "... a certain residue seemingly not thus resoluble" into chemico-physical energy-systems. This nonmaterial residue is the mind. Sherrington's half-century of studying the human brain has proved that mental behavior is not entirely reflex and thus rooted ultimately in matter (as Pavlov's Soviet disciples believe...
Fabulously absentminded, Johnny Berdan's behavior caused his friends to form "A Committee for Johnny's Health," which made it its business to see that he wore a hat and coat in cold weather. On one occasion, when Johnny and his wife left hurriedly for Europe, New Haven police phoned him in Manhattan to tell him that he had left his house with the front door and a safe wide open. In his house he has kept from time to time Siamese cats, a snake, a large turtle, a dog, white mice, a complete stock of Italian furniture...
...Manhattan last week nearly 1,000 members and guests of the American Orthopsychiatric Association gathered to discuss the grim problems of childhood. "Orthopsychiatry," the scientific study of abnormal behavior, concentrates largely on children. Since it is impossible to explain such polysyllabic notions as therapy or its need to moppets, and since they themselves have difficulty communicating with grownups, the orthopsychiatrist must be wily, has to resort to ruses and symbols, not only to communicate with children but to gain their confidence...