Word: pavlovingly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...sons, Today's fathers' are those who personally experienced the Revolution and their writings, perhaps because of the experimental nature of the Soviet state, were largely theoretical. Most writers have been brow-beaten into accepting the official Party line but from time to time a lone figure such as Pavlov or Pasternak rebels...
...working rules-for example, six is supposedly the right age for children to start school. But scientific study of the functions of the brain-memory, perception, intuition, imagination, conceptualization -has hardly been touched. Less has been learned about learning in humans than about learning in animals: Pavlov's dogs, for example, or the pingpong-playing pigeons that led to the invention of the teaching machine. The hope in organizing a Center for Cognitive Studies is to bring together psychologists, physiologists, philosophers, linguistics experts, and even certain technicians who can offer experience with computers. Then, relying heavily on experiments, they...
...food to a quick-cooking microwave oven, presses a colored timer button that matches the color code on the package, and his meal is heated for the proper length of time. When the red light flashes and the bell rings, the diner, who by now feels a kinship to Pavlov's dog, gets his chow on disposable plates...
Freud? Nyet! Western psychiatrists who had been hoping to find the Russians tapering off in their single-minded adherence to the theories of Ivan Petrovich Pavlov, of dog, bell and saliva fame, were disappointed. The delegation chief, Moscow's Dr. Andrei Vladimirovich Snezhnevsky, laid down the line uncompromisingly: "There has been no change in principle in our approach. The theory of Pavlov and its applications are still expanding in Russia...
Sick, Sick, Sick Pay. If Western psychiatrists could pity the Russians for being still confined in the straitjacket of Pavlov's physiological, conditioned-reflex theories, they could feel no superiority about the availability and effectiveness of straightforward, pragmatic psychiatry in Russia-at least the way the Russians told it. There seems to be about as much mental illness (certainly the handicapping forms such as schizophrenia) in the U.S.S.R. as in the West. But there are many fewer patients in mental hospitals at any one time. Reason: the Russians are taking psychiatry to the patients at the street-corner level...