Word: inhibitions
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...resources through devious means but are punished following the last commercial on the assumption that the punishment ending will erase or counteract the learning of the model's antisocial behavior. The findings of an experiment by Bandura in 1965 reveal that although punishment administered to a model tends to inhibit children's performance of the modeled behavior, it has virtually no influence on the occurrence of imitative learning. In this experiment children observed a film-mediated aggressive model who was severely punished in one condition, generously rewarded in a second condition, and received no response consequences to the model...
...they rule against Baird, they will have accepted the traditional arguments--that statutes against contraceptives inhibit illicit intercourse, and therefore properly aid the state in furthering morality in the Commonwealth. The arguments on that side are briefer: they make up a thirteen-page document by Assistant District Attorney Joseph A. Nolan...
...argued that although any number of newspapers may be published, broadcast frequencies are limited in number, and those licensed to use them could, if not regulated, offer the public only a narrow range of opinion. But the court insisted that both rules were not only too vague, but could inhibit stations from airing controversy. As for the argument that radio-TV might not offer enough diversity of opinion, the court added almost gratuitously: "In most major metropolitan areas there are several times as many radio and television stations as newspapers...
...convicted last year for failing to file federal tax returns, the Government had shown that his income between 1959 and 1962 was more than $76,000. Franklin paid a $25,000 fine. Now 51, he is a strapping, stentorious charmer who has never let his spiritual calling inhibit his fun-loving ways...
...think that people should be required to debate in order to have a right to recruit at Harvard, for the proposal may encourage the glib and inhibit the different--and not at all the dishonest. And I continue to belive that students should fight the evils of society directly in the society, as a great many have done and are doing now, taking universities and even Harvard with less solemnity as the measure of all ideals, the forum for all polemics. David Riesman '31 Henry Ford II Professor of Social Sciences