Word: experimenters
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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In one early experiment, Psychologist Ivar Lovaas of U.C.L.A. tried out reinforcement on a small group of vegetable-like psychotic children who were capable of no other utterances than guttural noises in their throats. Lovaas waited until they were hungry, then gave them a taste of sugar-coated cornflakes. Next...
Neatly Dressed. An even more challenging experiment in reinforcement therapy was begun eight years ago by Psychologists Teodoro Ayllon and Nathan Azrin at Anna State Hospital. In a ward of 46 chronic female schizophrenics and mental defectives, they exposed patients to the pleasures of cigarettes, television, a choice of roommates...
Penn's rowing program had been successful last spring. The Quakers took varsity and freshman titles at the IRA championships and had won the freshman crown at the Eastern Sprints. It is an ambitious program, designed to break the grip Harvard has had on the national title and bring it...
The Focal Point. None of these problems invalidates the French theory. Film has all but replaced the novel as the chief topic of cultural talk on the campus and at many cocktail parties. Audiences as well as critics need someone to praise or blame for the total product. Given that...
The initial preparatory meeting, held in Budapest in February 1968, ended on an ominous note as the Rumanians, on orders from Ceausescu, walked out because they were criticized for not following the Soviet line of condemning Israel. An infinitely greater disruption came a few months later, when the forces of...