Word: behaviour
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...which the tender hearted heroine undertakes to shelter in the absence of their owner, with no better facilities for housing them than a hall bedroom. Eight dogs and a girl in a small bedroom provides an amusing scene, the dogs adding to the entertainment by their somewhat too casual behaviour...
Behaviorism believes that "behaviour of man from infancy to death is the subject-matter of [human] psychology." Behaviorism's chief exponent, John Broadus Watson, says: "Thinking is merely talking . . . with concealed musculature...
...Faculty. This notion was dismissed, however, when the appendage to the department of Psychology was sloughed out of Emerson Hall and quartered upon the most remote plot of land owned by the University. It was obvious that this geographical dissociation prohibited the possibility of a close analysis of faculty behaviour...
...first place, we will define abnormal psychology. Abnormal psychology is a systematized collection of facts, concepts and hypotheses dealing with types of mental processes and behaviour that depart from normal and average forms. It includes a study of such common phenomena as dreams, reveries, slips of the tongue, morbid fears and anxieties, feelings of guilt and inferiority, obsessional ideas and compulsive acts, as well as the less common manifestations of hysteria and the halucinations and delusions of the insane...
...once smack his lips on abnormal psychology and it will lead him to the end of his days on a hunt through all the cultural activities of man to find an answer to his questions. For abnormal psychology, since it deals with all extremes of human activity, the mind behaviour of the criminal as well as the rotarian and the genius, ramifies into all attitudes and objectifications of the human soul. It is preoccupied with hysteria and visions, hence religious conversions, hence ecstasy, hence creative fervor, hence the poetry of William Black. It delves into the obsessional neuroses, hence witchcraft...