Word: psychologist
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Thus, in free translation by the University of Connecticut's Professor Jaime H. Arjona, runs a story from El 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...
...Psychologists and psychiatrists pay so much attention to mental disease that they may not know a healthy mind when they see one. Even the definitions of mental health are vague and still the subject of argument. Last week members of the American Psychological Association were pondering a positive definition of emotional health, advanced by the University of California's Dr. Frank Barren. The definition was unusual because it sounded so usual. The factors listed by Psychologist Barren as indicating good mental health might have been cited by any old-fashioned moral philosopher...
...most part it is probably a healthy thing to be rather well-behaved," added Psychologist Barron. "But there are times when it is a mark of greater health to be unruly . . . The ability to permit oneself to become disorganized is crucial to the development of a very high level of integration...
...sell his grandmother but, in the end, not deliver her. In his programs he mixes corny piety with dirty jokes, drinks raw gin from a water tumbler while broadcasting. Like an alcoholic stashing away bottles in convenient places, Fuller stashes away girls in convenient apartments. He once hired a psychologist to find out what kind of music has the most relaxing effect on women and put together several "Seduction Suites," consisting of six or eight records each. All the suites end with Ravel's Bolero-"Greatest closing piece of music ever written [for] all the different types...
...acceptance of what he can get when he knows he can get no more. So stretched, his tense personality reflects the tensions of his job and his time and his nation. And somehow, also, his personality reflects the symmetry of the Constitution he serves and expounds. "Thurgood," says a psychologist friend, "is a delicate balance of turmoils " He is a big (6 ft. 2 in., 210 Ibs.), quick-footed man, with a voice that can be soft or raucous, manners that can be rude or gentle or courtly, and an emotional pattern that swings him like a pendulum from...