Word: behaviorism
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...surprised as anyone in the park when I saw it in my hand," wailed Ump Wilson, trying to explain his unprecedented behavior. "It was the worst boner I ever pulled...
...scientific standards for the court treatment of juvenile delinquents, based on intensive research into the behavior of 1,000 boys for fifteen years after their handling by the Boston Juvenile Court, were published yesterday in a book by Professor Sheldon Glueck. and Dr. Eleanor T. Glueck, criminologists, of the Law School...
...Juvenile Delinquents," 1934, covering the boys' first five years after appearance in Boston Juvenile Court. The new follow-up research, which involved the tracing and interviewing of hundreds of men, as well as difficult statistical reduction of the case histories, appears today under the title "Juvenile Delinquents Grown Up." behavior of the offender and his reaction to different kinds of treatment was explicitly indicated by the charts. As a practical test in the courts, Professor and Mrs. Glueck suggest that every second case appearing before a court be disposed of with the aid of the new prognostic tables, affording...
...measure them by intelligence tests. He has worked out an elaborate method of spying on them from behind a one-way-vision screen. In The First Five Years of Life he describes: 1) how a normal child grows; 2) how one normal child differs from another. Normal behavior at different ages...
When rangy, kindly Dr. Gesell began his observations in 1911, child behavior was, scientifically speaking, largely a subject for clucks and coos. Dr. Gesell charted away like a Columbus, let others name his landfalls. Today many a modern theory about child upbringing (notably child feeding) is based on his findings. Dr. Gesell's own conclusions...