Set in an Oregon psychiatric hospital, the narrative serves as a study of the institutional process and the human mind as well as a critique of Behaviorism and a celebration of humanistic principles.

" Behaviorism was a reaction against " faculty " psychology which purported to see into or understand the mind without the benefit of scientific testing.

* Behaviorism, an approach to psychology based on the proposition that behavior can be researched scientifically without recourse to inner mental states, is usually considered to be deterministic and opposed to free will.

Behaviorism ( or behaviourism ), also called the learning perspective ( where any physical action is a behavior ), is a philosophy of psychology based on the proposition that all things that organisms do — including acting, thinking, and feeling — can and should be regarded as behaviors, and that psychological disorders are best treated by altering behavior patterns or modifying the environment.

Behaviorism had dominated the psychology until 1950s when new developments in a variety of fields overturned behaviorist theory in favor of a cognitive theory.

Behaviorism was heavily influenced by Ivan Pavlov and E. L. Thorndike, and its most notable early practitioner was John B. Watson, who proposed that psychology could only become an objective science were it based on observable behavior in test subjects.

Behaviorism insisted on working only with what can be seen or manipulated and in the early views of John B. Watson, a founder of the field, nothing was inferred as to the nature of the entity that produced the behavior.

Behaviorism focuses only on the objectively observable aspects of learning.

Behaviorism as a theory was primarily developed by B. F. Skinner.

The theory of operant conditioning was developed by B. F. Skinner and is known as Radical Behaviorism.

Proponents of Behaviorism argued that language may be learned through a form of operant conditioning.

Behaviorism is the idea that all behavior can be traced to specific causes — either environmental or reflexive.

O ’ Donnell wrote The Origins of Behaviorism, where he deemed Watson ’ s views as radical calculations.

* Buckley, Kerry W. Mechanical Man: John Broadus Watson and the Beginnings of Behaviorism.

Morris, Modern Perspectives on John B. Watson and Classical Behaviorism.

"' Not a Creature of Reason ': The Alleged Impact of Watsonian Behaviorism on Advertising in the 1920s.

Morris, Modern Perspectives on John B. Watson and Classical Behaviorism.

" Struggle for Scientific Authority: The Reception of Watson's Behaviorism, 1913-1920.

* Todd, James T. " What Psychology Has to Say About John B. Watson: Classical Behaviorism in Psychology Textbooks, 1920-1989.

Morris, Modern Perspectives on John B. Watson and Classical Behaviorism.

For discouragement, or the temptation to abandon our efforts, `` would show that one placed excessive trust in purely human means without thinking of the omnipotence of God, the irresistible efficacy of prayer, the action of Christ or the power of the Divine Spirit ''.

He thinks only of his own personal happiness and the unfairness of the situation in which he has been placed but gradually comes to recognize his membership in a larger human community, which makes demands on him that he cannot ignore.

Anti-globalization advocates urge that preservation of the natural environment, human rights ( especially workplace rights and conditions ) and democratic institutions are likely to be placed at undue risk by globalization unless mandatory standards are attached to liberalisation.

* The comic series Concrete ( 1986 -) revolved around the life of an ordinary human whose brain had been placed in a large artificial stone body by aliens.

In " The Human Zoo ", Morris postulates that human society has moved from small scattered tribes to highly compressed urban civilization and that this trend has placed growing psychological and sociological pressure on humans which leads to both a greater chance for mankind to understand himself but also leads to irrational and unnatural human behavior which can manifest itself into severe psychological problems.

In this view, knowledge having a bearing on human life was placed highest, all other knowledge being secondary.

The splitting date between human and chimpanzee lineages is placed around 4-8 million years ago during the late Miocene epoch.

Allah placed human beings on the earth to test them, and so different people live for different lengths of time before they die and their souls are separated from their bodies.

" ( 91: 7 ) The soul is the essence of man ; it is the part which will outlast this life and be judged in the next, and one of the main reasons human beings were placed in this world is to test and develop their souls.

The 1992 democratic elections and Guyana's reaffirmation of sound economic policies and respect for human rights have placed U. S .- Guyanese relations on an excellent footing.

Supporters are human or animal figures or, very rarely, inanimate objects, usually placed on either side of a coat of arms as though supporting it.

At the end of the lute's evolution the archlute, theorbo and torban had long extensions attached to the main tuning head in order to provide a greater resonating length for the bass strings, and since human fingers are not long enough to stop strings across a neck wide enough to hold 14 courses, the bass strings were placed outside the fretboard, and were played " open ", i. e. without fretting / stopping them with the left hand.

Since it must have been deliberately placed there, this could indicate one of the first ( known ) human finds of a meteorite in Europe.

* The Unique World of Microminiatures of Hagop Sandaljian: A collection of micro-miniature sculptures, each carved from a single human hair and placed within the eye of a needle.

Pre-existence, beforelife, or pre-mortal existence refers to the belief that each individual human soul existed before conception, and at some point before birth enters or is placed by God into the body.

In human societies, some jurisdictions have placed various restrictive laws against certain sexual activities, such as sex with minors, incest, extramarital sex, position-of-trust sex, prostitution, sodomy, public lewdness, rape, and bestiality.

In the context of spaceflight, a satellite is an object which has been placed into orbit by human endeavour.

Either intentionally or unintentionally placed there by the human designer, it thus negates the true spirit of tabula rasa.

And in a statement on 10 December 2003 on behalf of the European Union, Marcello Spatafora said that " it placed human rights at the centre of the framework of principles and obligations shaping relations within the international community.

) was a value placed on every human being and every piece of property in the Salic Code ( Salic Law ).

A werewolf, also known as a lycanthrope ( from the Greek:, lukos, " wolf ", and, anthrōpos, " man "), is a mythological or folkloric human with the ability to shapeshift into a wolf or an anthropomorphic wolf-like creature, either purposely or after being placed under a curse and / or lycanthropic affliction via a bite or scratch from a werewolf, or some other means.

* Satellite, an object which has been placed into orbit by human endeavour

It is placed in roughly chronological order of biological and social development in the human life cycle.

The emergence of antivirals is the product of a greatly expanded knowledge of the genetic and molecular function of organisms, allowing biomedical researchers to understand the structure and function of viruses, major advances in the techniques for finding new drugs, and the intense pressure placed on the medical profession to deal with the human immunodeficiency virus ( HIV ), the cause of the deadly acquired immunodeficiency syndrome ( AIDS ) pandemic.