Word: watsonian
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...volunteer nursing and practicing pharmacy, she wrote her first detective story on a dare from her sister. The Mysterious Affair at Styles introduced the 5-ft. 4-in. dandy and retired Belgian police officer Hercule Poirot. His egoism, eccentricities and the fact that for a time he had a Watsonian colleague called Hastings suggest that Christie was strongly influenced by Sherlock Holmes...
...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 of this Watsonian behaviorism was the prediction and control of behavior?which suited Skinner to perfection...
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