Word: experimentalism
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Even mainline practitioners are uncertain that psychiatry can tell the insane from the sane. In one experiment, Stanford's D.L. Rosenhan planted eight sane volunteers, one of them a psychiatrist, in public and private psychiatric wards scattered across the country and told them to behave normally. Many inmates quickly realized...
Despite the mileage standards, the manufacturers are determined to go on making full-size, six-passenger cars. As GM Chairman Thomas Aquinas Murphy told TIME Detroit Bureau Chief Barrett Seaman, "It's one thing to talk about reinventing the automobile to get one that will go 50 miles on...
The costly demands of regulation stand to weaken competition within the industry. GM will gain strength, Ford will at least hold its own, while Chrysler and AMC will probably lose ground. The bigger the company, the less trouble it will have meeting the standards. GM last year sold almost half...
With a $1,000 grant from the Tufts rehabilitation department, Willard purchased two laboratory-bred capuchins named Crystel and Tish, at a cost of $350 each. Willard spent nearly a year training them with Skinner's trial-and-reward techniques and finally felt ready to turn them over to...
The great American experiment is fast approaching its second childhood. If tutorials are ever to regain their value as a pedagogical tool, faculty must collectively commit themselves to the business of educating undergraduates.