Word: stimuli
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Widely-acclaimed as the father of modern behaviorism, Skinner pioneered research in the 1950s, arguing that human behavior could be understood as a series of reactions to external stimuli, rather than by internal emotional states...
...samaritans is awash in information, sensation, and objects of diversion but everyone's so numb they don't mind, and they adopt a fusty capitalist attitude respecting their decadence. As one character earnestly asserts. "It makes you proud to be an American: we still lead the world in stimuli...
...danger; the cerebral cortex, which coordinates perception and thought, is not yet developed. As for the silent scream, says Johns Hopkins Neurobiologist David Bodian, doctors have no evidence that a twelve-week-old fetus can feel pain, though "there is a possibility of a reflex movement" in response to stimuli like surgical instruments. Hobbins suggests that the dramatic scream may have been a fetal yawn, because "the fetus spends lots of time with its mouth open." Indeed, he says, the gaping mouth in the blurry film may not have been a mouth at all, but the space between the fetal...
...challenging work, but its challenge is not intellectual; the inherent intellectual content is, by design, minimal The challenge, rather, is for the audience to suspend its accustomed intellectual response to drama, to treat the text more as music than as literature, and to respond to the visual and aural stimuli of the work as they would to a dreams viscerally, emotionally, or even intellectually, according to their own lights...
Still, Nobel Economics Laureate James Tobin, an outspoken Keynesian, can persuasively describe the current boom as _ mainly a result of deficit spending. Far from being a supply-side victory, he says, the recovery represents "an accidental and classic Keynesian dose of fiscal and monetary stimuli...