Word: behaviorisms
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...creation of New England's first civilian police review board, set up to monitor the behavior of the Cambridge police department and to respond to charges of racial harassment...
...year-old Skinner, a native of Susquehanna, Penn., is known as a radical behaviorist who rebelled against the hypothetical approach to the science of behavior. His experimental approach led his development of what came to be known as the "Skinner Box," a controlled environment that allowed him to record behavioral patterns...
Following the riot, the People's Daily, the official party newspaper, speculated that the incident was triggered by "inadequate education for youth about civil behavior and the law." Municipal officials called for more ideological training in schools. Official anger may succeed in reining in China's rowdy soccer fans for a while. But Western diplomats, and even some Chinese, suggest that less, not more discipline is needed. They see the riot as a cathartic release of emotions that have had little opportunity for expression in a society where hard work, obedience and humility are demanded. "Some people would find...
...their refusal to sign the treaty, the French as long ago as 1968 declared that they would abide by the accord in demanding international safeguards from any country that sought to buy their technology. Both Brazil and Argentina have followed the same practice in recent deals with China; such behavior should be applauded when appropriate and, if possible, rewarded...
...psychopathic, episode, Rambo has been keeping fit, courtesy of the penal system, by making little ones out of big ones in a rock quarry. But now at the gate stands his sometime mentor, Colonel Trautman of the Special Forces (Richard Crenna), offering him time off for bad behavior. There is this supersecret, supersensitive mission back...