Word: stimuli
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Sorry you did not point out the accomplishment of the old pioneer of them all in your Aug. 31 roundup of newly instituted training programs for Americans overseas. Founded in 1946, thus significantly antedating The Ugly American and other stimuli, the American Institute for Foreign Trade at Phoenix. Ariz, now has approximately 700 graduates living and working abroad in 70 countries of the free world...
...intention of the research, as Professor Skinner has stated in his report to the Fund, is on "controlling the variables of which learning is a function." By setting up suitable "contingencies of reinforcement," Skinner says, the particular modes of behavior can be directed by the particular type of stimuli. The consequent behavior proves to be predictable over long stretches of time...
...Programming of the material seems to be much more complicated than the construction of the machine. Through programming, "specific forms of behavior are to be evoked and, through differential reinforcement, brought under the control of specific stimuli." It is the step-by-step organization of the knowledge to be inculcated; and the frames are chosen and arranged in the way which will fully exploit the advantages of "immediate feedback," or direct determination of an answer's correctness or incorrectness...
...only merit I think the device has is that it makes narration easier. You can take your hero and see him as a reaction towards certain stimuli, and then by reminiscence--better term--you gradually learn why he has this behavior pattern. It makes for considerable vividness in narrative. It's a very dangerous device, though; if it doesn't all go together in one piece, it's the most awkward thing you possibly could...
...unification will never occur under the aegis of the U.S. Despite the overwhelming re-approval of Adenauer, sentiment grows that Germany will eventually have to reach an agreement of her own with the Kremlin in order to effect reunification. The Adenauer election, perhaps primarily a result of emotional stimuli, is not total assurance of Germany's full diplomatic cooperation with the West...