Fixing Psychology

A blog about problems in the field of psychology and attempts to fix them.

Friday, February 28, 2014

How to Explain Behaviorism: Operant and Classical Conditioning

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There are many explanations that can be used to help people understand the Behaviorist Point of View. Some are very factual, others argue to...
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Friday, February 7, 2014

Animal Drives: Some notes on Word Magic

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Here I am, flipping through Holt's Animal Drives and the Learning Process: An Essay Towards Radical Empiricism (1931). The book is not ...
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Monday, December 30, 2013

Adjuncts and Unions

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So, even though my posts about adjunct professors haven't gotten much traction here, there has been quite a bit of chatter generated ove...
Tuesday, November 5, 2013

All it takes to be a behaviorist... or... Manifesto, Take 2

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There is much confusion over what it means to be a behaviorist. This is largely due to silly posturing by Big Names over the past 100 years ...
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Thursday, October 17, 2013

Fixing Psychology, 100 Posts at a time!

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So, there I was, pre-tenure at a schizophrenic part-research-university, part-liberal-arts-college, part-trade-school, with a disabled wife ...
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Monday, October 14, 2013

What's wrong with (the rhetoric surrounding) adjuncts? Part 1

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The Adjuncts vs. Professors conundrum has been on my mind. In a recent post , I talked about why it should be hard to compare what adjuncts ...
Saturday, October 5, 2013

Congratulations to Michael Turvey!

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Recently Michael Turvey became an inaugural recipient of the Association for Psychological Science's Mentor Award. This is a much deserv...
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