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Thursday, January 08, 2009

Embracing chaos and complexity: a quantum change for public health.

10 Jun 2008 Public health research and practice have been guided by a cognitive, rational paradigm where inputs produce linear, predictable changes in outputs. However, the conceptual and statistical assumptions underlying this paradigm may be flawed. In ... Read more...

The origins of behavioral genetics.

9 Mar 2008 The passing of Seymour Benzer has inspired various retrospectives on his scientific career, and much attention has been paid to his inauguration of single-gene mutant studies of behavior in the fruitfly Drosophila melanogaster. Studies of genes and ... Read more...

Neurotech for neuroscience: unifying concepts, organizing principles, and emerging tools.

29 Oct 2007 The ability to tackle analysis of the brain at multiple levels simultaneously is emerging from rapid methodological developments. The classical research strategies of "measure," "model," and "make" are being applied to the exploration of nervous ... Read more...

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Latest indexed articles for 'Behaviorism'

These are the very latest articles for this heading:

• Embracing chaos and complexity: a quantum change for public health. 10 Jun 2008
• The origins of behavioral genetics. 9 Mar 2008
• Neurotech for neuroscience: unifying concepts, organizing principles, and emerging tools. 29 Oct 2007
• Culture of science: strange history of the methodological thinking in psychology. 27 Feb 2007
• Has 60 years of research in psychology really gone astray? 27 Feb 2007
• Psychology is about processes. 27 Feb 2007
• Psychological methodology will change profoundly due to the necessity to focus on intra-individual variation. 27 Feb 2007
• Missed opportunities: speculation on what Japanese psychology could have been. 27 Feb 2007
• Westernalization in the mirror: on the cultural reception of western psychology. 27 Feb 2007
• 100 years of psychology of concepts: the theoretical notion of concept and its operationalization. 10 Feb 2007
• Emancipatory teaching-learning philosophy and practice education in acute care: navigating tensions. 30 Jan 2007
• John B. Watson's alleged sex research: an appraisal of the evidence. 30 Jan 2007
• Cui bono? A review of breaking the spell: religion as a natural phenomenon by Daniel C. Dennett. 30 Dec 2006
• Free will from the viewpoint of teleological behaviorism. 30 Dec 2006
• 'Introspectionism' and the mythical origins of scientific psychology. 29 Nov 2006
• Overview of current learning theories for medical educators. 29 Sep 2006
• Yerkes, Hamilton and the experimental study of the ape mind: from evolutionary psychiatry to eugenic politics. 3 Jun 2006
• Promoting effective teaching and learning in the clinical setting. 30 May 2006
• A clarification of Heidegger's phenomenology. 30 Mar 2006
• The ideology of logic in contemporary psychology. 30 Mar 2006

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Technical information about 'Behaviorism'

Definition: A psychologic theory developed by James B. Watson concerned with studying and measuring behaviors that are observable.

Descriptor UI: D001527

Alternative terms: Behaviorism; Behaviorisms;

Allowable Qualifiers: history;

Tree Number: F02.739.138;

Technical Notes: a school of psychology: do not confuse with BEHAVIOR; only /hist