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Language and communication are central features of social
behaviour. So, it is somewhat surprising that the social
psychological study of language, communication and discourse has a
relatively short history. In this book a leading group of language,
discourse and social psychology scholars will overview the history,
theories and methods of the field. However, the main focus is on
current developments in the social psychology of language and
discourse, showcasing cutting edge empirical work.
This book reviews the remarkable growth, diversity and challenges
of child sponsorship. It features the latest progress in child
sponsorship practice and necessary tensions experienced by some
organisations as they seek to maximise impact.
Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the
1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly
expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable,
high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.
The aim of this volume is to make available to a large audience
recent material in nonlinear functional analysis that has not been
covered in book format before. Here, several topics of current and
growing interest are systematically presented, such as fixed point
theory, best approximation, the KKM-map principle, and results
related to optimization theory, variational inequalities and
complementarity problems. Illustrations of suitable applications
are given, the links between results in various fields of research
are highlighted, and an up-to-date bibliography is included to
assist readers in further studies. Audience: This book will be of
interest to graduate students, researchers and applied
mathematicians working in nonlinear functional analysis, operator
theory, approximations and expansions, convex sets and related
geometric topics and game theory.
A NATO Advanced Study Institute on Approximation Theory and Spline
Functions was held at Memorial University of Newfoundland during
August 22-September 2, 1983. This volume consists of the
Proceedings of that Institute. These Proceedings include the main
invited talks and contributed papers given during the Institute.
The aim of these lectures was to bring together Mathematicians,
Physicists and Engineers working in the field. The lectures covered
a wide range including 1ultivariate Approximation, Spline
Functions, Rational Approximation, Applications of Elliptic
Integrals and Functions in the Theory of Approximation, and Pade
Approximation. We express our sincere thanks to Professors E. W.
Cheney, J. Meinguet, J. M. Phillips and H. Werner, members of the
International Advisory Committee. We also extend our thanks to the
main speakers and the invi ted speakers, whose contri butions made
these Proceedings complete. The Advanced Study Institute was
financed by the NATO Scientific Affairs Division. We express our
thanks for the generous support. We wish to thank members of the
Department of Mathematics and Statistics at MeMorial University who
willingly helped with the planning and organizing of the Institute.
Special thanks go to Mrs. Mary Pike who helped immensely in the
planning and organizing of the Institute, and to Miss Rosalind
Genge for her careful and excellent typing of the manuscript of
these Proceedings."
Watson was the father of behaviorism. His now-revered lectures on
the subject defined behaviorism as a natural science that takes the
whole field of human adjustment as its own. It is the business of
behaviorist psychology to predict and control human activity. The
field has as its aim to be able, given the stimulus, to predict the
response, or seeing the reaction, to know the stimulus that
produced it. Watson argued that psychology is as good as its
observations: what the organism does or says in the general
environment. Watson identified "laws" of learning, including
frequency and recency. Kimble makes it perfectly clear that
Watson's behaviorism, while deeply indebted to Ivan Pavlov, went
beyond the Russian master in his treatment of cognition, language,
and emotion. It becomes clear that Behaviorism is anything but the
reductionist caricature it is often made out to be in the critical
literature. For that reason alone, the work merits a wide reading.
Behaviorism, as was typical of the psychology of the time, offered
a wide array of applications all of which can be said to fall on
the enlightened side of the ledger. At a time of mixed messages,
Watson argued against child beating and abuse, for patterns of
enlightened techniques of factory management, and for curing the
sick and isolating the small cadre of criminals not subject to
correction. And anticipating Thomas Szasz, he argued against a
doctrine of strictly mental diseases, and for a close scrutiny of
behavioral illness and disturbances. Kimble's brilliant
introduction to Watson ends with a challenge to subjectivism to
provide evidence that Watson's behaviorism cannot explain human
actions without introspective notions of the mind. This genuine
classic of social science hi our century remains relevant not just
for the conduct of psychological research, but for studies in the
philosophy of science and the sociology of knowledge.
Watson was the father of behaviorism. His now-revered lectures on
the subject defined behaviorism as a natural science that takes the
whole field of human adjustment as its own. It is the business of
behaviorist psychology to predict and control human activity. The
field has as its aim to be able, given the stimulus, to predict the
response, or seeing the reaction, to know the stimulus that
produced it. Watson argued that psychology is as good as its
observations: what the organism does or says in the general
environment. Watson identified "laws" of learning, including
frequency and recency. Kimble makes it perfectly clear that
Watson's behaviorism, while deeply indebted to Ivan Pavlov, went
beyond the Russian master in his treatment of cognition, language,
and emotion. It becomes clear that Behaviorism is anything but the
reductionist caricature it is often made out to be in the critical
literature. For that reason alone, the work merits a wide reading.
Behaviorism, as was typical of the psychology of the time, offered
a wide array of applications-all of which can be said to fall on
the enlightened side of the ledger. At a time of mixed messages,
Watson argued against child beating and abuse, for patterns of
enlightened techniques of factory management, and for curing the
sick and isolating the small cadre of criminals not subject to
correction. And anticipating Thomas Szasz, he argued against a
doctrine of strictly mental diseases, and for a close scrutiny of
behavioral illness and disturbances. Kimble's brilliant
introduction to Watson ends with a challenge to subjectivism to
provide evidence that Watson's behaviorism cannot explain human
actions without introspective notions of the mind. This genuine
classic of social science hi our century remains relevant not just
for the conduct of psychological research, but for studies in the
philosophy of science and the sociology of knowledge.
This book reviews the remarkable growth, diversity and challenges
of child sponsorship. It features the latest progress in child
sponsorship practice and necessary tensions experienced by some
organisations as they seek to maximise impact.
A NATO Advanced Study Institute on Approximation Theory and Spline
Functions was held at Memorial University of Newfoundland during
August 22-September 2, 1983. This volume consists of the
Proceedings of that Institute. These Proceedings include the main
invited talks and contributed papers given during the Institute.
The aim of these lectures was to bring together Mathematicians,
Physicists and Engineers working in the field. The lectures covered
a wide range including 1ultivariate Approximation, Spline
Functions, Rational Approximation, Applications of Elliptic
Integrals and Functions in the Theory of Approximation, and Pade
Approximation. We express our sincere thanks to Professors E. W.
Cheney, J. Meinguet, J. M. Phillips and H. Werner, members of the
International Advisory Committee. We also extend our thanks to the
main speakers and the invi ted speakers, whose contri butions made
these Proceedings complete. The Advanced Study Institute was
financed by the NATO Scientific Affairs Division. We express our
thanks for the generous support. We wish to thank members of the
Department of Mathematics and Statistics at MeMorial University who
willingly helped with the planning and organizing of the Institute.
Special thanks go to Mrs. Mary Pike who helped immensely in the
planning and organizing of the Institute, and to Miss Rosalind
Genge for her careful and excellent typing of the manuscript of
these Proceedings."
The aim of this volume is to make available to a large audience
recent material in nonlinear functional analysis that has not been
covered in book format before. Here, several topics of current and
growing interest are systematically presented, such as fixed point
theory, best approximation, the KKM-map principle, and results
related to optimization theory, variational inequalities and
complementarity problems. Illustrations of suitable applications
are given, the links between results in various fields of research
are highlighted, and an up-to-date bibliography is included to
assist readers in further studies. Audience: This book will be of
interest to graduate students, researchers and applied
mathematicians working in nonlinear functional analysis, operator
theory, approximations and expansions, convex sets and related
geometric topics and game theory.
Language and communication are central features of social
behaviour. So, it is somewhat surprising that the social
psychological study of language, communication and discourse has a
relatively short history. In this book a leading group of language,
discourse and social psychology scholars will overview the history,
theories and methods of the field. However, the main focus is on
current developments in the social psychology of language and
discourse, showcasing cutting edge empirical work.
Winner of the Gold Medal for Western Canadian Fiction at the 2012
Independent Publisher (IPPY) Book Awards "Cadillac Couches" is a
picaresque road trip novel that journeys from prairie to big city
and back again. A quixotic tale set in the late nineties and framed
by the popular Edmonton Folk Music Festival, it follows two
music-smitten twentysomething women as they search for love and
purpose. Annie Jones is trying to put her big love, Sullivan,
behind her and squash her demons of anxiety and compulsion. In a
post-fest funk, she and her more worldly sidekick Isobel jump in
Annie's 1972 Volkswagen Beetle and race across the country to
Montreal where her real-life fantasy man, Hawksley Workman, is
doing a gig. A year later Annie and Isobel end up back at the folk
festival, this time in a much different position.A witty first
novel, "Cadillac Couches" is a story about finding one's holy grail
in life. The book comes with its own playlist.
This is a new release of the original 1929 edition.
This is a new release of the original 1929 edition.
Psychology Classics: The Case of Little Albert
Conditioned Emotional Reactions by John B. Watson and Rosalie
Rayner is one of the most influential, infamous and iconic research
articles ever published in the history of psychology. Commonly
referred to as "The Case of Little Albert" this psychology classic
attempted to show how fear could be induced in an infant through
classical conditioning. Originally published in 1920, Conditioned
Emotional Reactions remains among the most frequently cited journal
articles in introductory psychology courses and textbooks.
A psychology classic is by definition a must read. However, most
seminal texts within the discipline remain unread by a majority of
psychology students. A detailed, well written description of a
classic study is fine to a point, but there is absolutely no
substitute for understanding and engaging with the issues under
review than by reading the authors unabridged ideas, thoughts and
findings in their entirety.
Bonus Material:
One of the most dramatic aspects of Watson and Rayner's original
study was that they had planned to test a number of methods by
which they could remove Little Albert's conditioned fear responses.
However, as Watson noted "Unfortunately Albert was taken from the
hospital the day the above tests were made. Hence the opportunity
of building up an experimental technique by means of which we could
remove the conditioned emotional responses was denied us."
This unforeseen turn of events was something that obviously stayed
with Watson, as under his guidance some three years later, Mary
Cover Jones conducted a follow-up study - A Laboratory Study of
Fear: The Case of Peter - which illustrated how fear may be removed
under laboratory conditions. This additional and highly relevant
article is also presented in full.
The Case of Little Albert has been produced as part of an
initiative by the website All About Psychology to make important
psychology publications widely available.
www.all-about-psychology.com
This scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger
Publishing's Legacy Reprint Series. Due to its age, it may contain
imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed
pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we
have made it available as part of our commitment to protecting,
preserving, and promoting the world's literature. Kessinger
Publishing is the place to find hundreds of thousands of rare and
hard-to-find books with something of interest for everyone!
Kessinger Publishing is the place to find hundreds of thousands of
rare and hard-to-find books with something of interest for
everyone!
This scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger
Publishing's Legacy Reprint Series. Due to its age, it may contain
imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed
pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we
have made it available as part of our commitment to protecting,
preserving, and promoting the world's literature. Kessinger
Publishing is the place to find hundreds of thousands of rare and
hard-to-find books with something of interest for everyone!
Kessinger Publishing is the place to find hundreds of thousands of
rare and hard-to-find books with something of interest for
everyone!
This scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger
Publishing's Legacy Reprint Series. Due to its age, it may contain
imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed
pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we
have made it available as part of our commitment to protecting,
preserving, and promoting the world's literature. Kessinger
Publishing is the place to find hundreds of thousands of rare and
hard-to-find books with something of interest for everyone!
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