Word: behavioristic
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...Names, names, what's your name?" As they do, they pass a drum from hand to hand and each tries to say his name while beating out its syllables. Promising results are also being obtained with a behaviorist approach that does not concern itself with the cause of a child's disability or with traditional IQ measurements. It merely rewards positive responses from the child to any kind of lesson. The system seems to work with tokens that the children recognize as symbols of success. The point is to get the child accustomed to learning what...
...publication of "I.Q." has drawn comment from a number of sources. B.F. Skinner, Pierce Professor of Psychology, a noted behaviorist, called the article "a good exposition to date of the problem...
...publication of "I.Q." has drawn comment from a number of sources, B.F. Skinner, Pierce Professor of Psychology, a noted behaviorist, called the article "a good exposition to date of the problem...
...distinction: she was the most talked-about infant in America?the famous "baby in a box." The box, or "air crib" as her father called it, was his own invention, a glassed-in, insulated, air-controlled crib that he thought would revolutionize child rearing and, in line with his behaviorist theories, produce happier, healthier children...
...being who submits to behavior manipulation "is treating himself as object and to some extent, therefore, becomes an object." In a similar vein, Los Angeles Analyst Judd Marmor recently wrote that the new method comes "uncomfortably close to the dangerous area of thought and behavior control." Not so, says Behaviorist Alan Goldstein of Temple University. "People come to us to have their behavior changed. It is not our choice. We don't tell them how they ought to behave...