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...this kind of thinking that influenced Watson. Drawing, too, on the work of Pavlov, he repudiated the subjective concepts of mind and emotion and described human behavior as a succession of physical reflex responses to stimuli coming from the environment. It was the environment alone, he felt, that determined what a man is: "Give me a dozen healthy infants," he wrote in 1925, "and I'll guarantee to take any one at random and train him to become any type of specialist I might select?doctor, lawyer, even beggarman and thief, regardless of his talents, penchants, tendencies, abilities." The goal...
Amid the crack of 450-volt xenon strobes, the silent zap of lasers and an unprecedented clicking of turnstiles, the Los Angeles County Museum's exhibition called "Art and Technology" is under way at last. It will run through August, and it affords a revealing spectacle of the stimuli and problems that rise out of a major encounter of art and industry...
...activity itself. None of these values make for personal fulfillment; none of these values challenge the basic precepts of our society: education conceived exclusively as work merely perpetuates the production of what Erich From calls the "eternal suckling"-people sapped of their inner motivation, dependent upon external stimuli to keep them moving...
...violent editing, however, as well as a sound-track that works against the images, "objective sound" (unrelated to the distance of the image) alternating with a subjective and poetically rich interior monologue, objective long shots, all create the opposite effect: critical alienation. You aren't just barraged by stimuli, as with dialectical montage; you become part of a process, a total dialectic: political rationality vs, surreal conditions...
...necessity in peer group interaction. Earlier dramatic experience leads to story reading by one student to a group. The reader gets a sense of the importance of conveying a meaning because other students do not have an identical text. The first attempts at composition are the recording of sensory stimuli and dictation of stories by young to older children. These are followed by written observations in an assigned project, like watching an animal eat or a plant grow. Finally the student writes out stories and plays to be read and enacted...