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Kopstein, Felix F.; Siedel, Robert J. – 1971
Can the laws of learning be applied in the classroom? The issue is whether control over the stimulus affords management-control over the learning processes within the student. The S-R (stimulus-response) position in psychology, most notably associated with Skinner, tends to accept and assert the affirmative. However, accumulated experience with…
Descriptors: Association (Psychology), Behavioral Science Research, Conditioning, Cybernetics
Smith, Karl U.; Putz, Vernon – J Appl Psychol, 1970
Descriptors: Behavioral Science Research, Cybernetics, Environmental Influences, Experiments
Gibb, J. Douglas; MacDougall, Allan B. – 1972
This study is part of a program designed to attempt identification of dissonance through components of electrophysiological instrumentation, for measuring and presenting to a person some of his own unconscious dissonance, of which he is normally unaware. Using college students as subjects, the authors used attitude ratings on values to attempt to…
Descriptors: Analysis of Variance, Attitude Change, Behavioral Science Research, Cognitive Processes
Kibler, Robert J., Ed.; Barker, Larry L., Ed. – 1969
The first part of this report presents background and procedures of the 1968 New Orleans conference on speech-communication and lists the recommendations formally adopted by the conference concerning research priorities, graduate instruction, and issues and responsibilities in speech-communication. The major section of the publication is devoted…
Descriptors: Behavioral Science Research, Behavioral Sciences, Communication Problems, Communication (Thought Transfer)
Kibler, Robert J., Ed.; Barker, Larry L., Ed. – 1969
The first part of this report presents background and procedures of the 1968 New Orleans conference on speech-communication and lists the recommendations formally adopted by the conference concerning research priorities, graduate instruction, and issues and responsibilities in speech-communication. The major section of the publication is devoted…
Descriptors: Behavioral Science Research, Behavioral Sciences, Communication Problems, Communication (Thought Transfer)
Smith, Karl U.; Smith, Margaret Foltz – 1966
This book presents the cybernetic theory of learning and the evidence which supports it. Learning is more than the openloop forming of new stimulus-response associations--it is a process of reorganization of sensory feedback within a closed loop, or pattern, which increases the learner's level of control over his own behavior and the stimuli in…
Descriptors: Behavior, Behavior Change, Behavior Theories, Behavioral Science Research