I spent the day in Chicago on Thursday, the day after the Blackhawks won the Stanley Cup. The Blackhawks hadn’t won it all since 1961, and the signs of celebration were everywhere. As I walked around, I recalled that the White Sox won the World Series in 2005, the Bulls dominated basketball in the 1990s, […]
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Stephen Hicks discusses the Behaviorist criticism of the “standard model” in psychology. This is from Part 10 of his Philosophy of Education course. 1 clip: Previous: On correlating cause and effect: The “standard model” in psychology. Next: The behaviorist solution. Return to the Philosophy of Education page. Return to the StephenHicks.org main page.
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Stephen Hicks presents Behaviorism’s solution to the problems with the standard model of psychology. This is from Part 10 of his Philosophy of Education course. 1 clip: Previous: The problem with the standard model. Next: Black box methodology. Return to the Philosophy of Education page. Return to the StephenHicks.org main page.
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Stephen Hicks discusses “Black Box” methodology and its use in Behaviorist psychological research. This is from Part 10 of his Philosophy of Education course. 1 clip: Previous: The behaviorist solution. Next: The assumption of environmental determinism. Return to the Philosophy of Education page. Return to the StephenHicks.org main page.
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Stephen Hicks discusses correlating cause and effect and the “standard model” in psychology. This is from Part 10 of his Philosophy of Education course. 1 Clip: Previous: On scientific observation. Next: The problem with the standard model. Return to the Philosophy of Education page. Return to the StephenHicks.org main page.
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Stephen Hicks discusses scientific observation and its implications for the Behaviorist theory of psychology. This is from Part 10 of his Philosophy of Education course. Clips 1-2: Previous: Two preconditions for a science of psychology. Next: On correlating cause and effect: The “standard model” in psychology. Return to the Philosophy of Education page. Return to
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Stephen Hicks discusses two preconditions for a science of psychology. This is from Part 10 of his Philosophy of Education course. 1 clip: Previous: 20th century psychology: Freud, Behaviorism, Cognitivism. Next: On scientific observation. Return to the Philosophy of Education page. Return to the StephenHicks.org main page.
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When I was teaching out east some years ago, I noted a Philadelphia Inquirer piece on the Voluntary Human Extinction Movement. This organization, firmly in the grip of zero-sum anti-humanist environmentalism, was calling for the elimination of human beings by unspecified means. I expect that VHEMT’s members are no longer with us, but somehow the
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