Word: pavlov
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Capellán de la Virgen (The Virgin's Chaplain), reprinted in the current American Psychologist. No clearer exposition of the principle of conditioned reflexes has ever been written. As every Russian schoolboy knows, reflex conditioning was unknown until it was discovered by Russian Physiologist Ivan Petrovich Pavlov (1849-1936). El Capellán de la Virgen, a play about the life of Saint Ildefonso (606-667), Archbishop of Toledo, was written by the Spanish Dramatist Lope de Vega about...
...Nationalists, like Pavlov's one-track-minded dogs, preferred to bark at the Dutch rather than bite into the current issues. In a remote Sumatran village a Nationalist screamed: "Politically you are free, economically you are not. Everything is still Dutch. You are guests in your own home...
...also publish on their own. But taken all together, the Oxford University Press covers just about everything except new novels. It has published Lord Bryce's Studies of History and Jurisprudence, Stubbs's Constitutional History of England, Sanskrit and Gothic grammars and the first English translation of Pavlov's Conditioned Reflexes. Its famed dictionary (414,825 words) is the scholar's final arbiter on English words, and its books of verse, its series of Companions and its reprints of the classics are in hundreds of thousands of libraries...
...grave, was taken before a firing squad, heard the command to fire and heard the pistols click on empty chambers; and he refused to yield. Such testimony as this seems to teach us that the spirit of man can run deeper than the reflexes of Pavlov...
Russian psychiatrists have long frowned on lobotomy, a drastic operation developed in Portugal and the U.S. but by no means approved by all Western specialists (TIME, June 22). For a generation, Russia's doctors have been conditioned to follow, sheeplike, the late Ivan Petrovich Pavlov, of conditioned-reflex fame. Following his patterns, they believe that if any part of the physical brain is damaged or destroyed, the mind is damaged beyond repair. Lobotomy, argued Oserezski, damages the high brain centers and turns a human being into a vegetable. He quoted a Soviet colleague as saying that it "makes idiots...