Grub Street
The Oxford Companion to British History
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Grub Street is a derogatory term for bad writing. Its figurative use was commonplace by the early 18th cent. and Jonathan
Swift referred to a paper he was involved with as ‘a little upon the Grub-Street’. In his
Dictionary of 1755 Samuel
Johnson commented: ‘originally the name of a street in Moorfields in London [now under the Barbican development], much inhabited by writers of small histories, dictionaries, and temporary poems; whence any mean production is called grubstreet.’
J. A. Downie
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Anniversaries
Newspaper article from: The Independent - London; 4/14/1995; 648 words
; ...Friedrich Albert Moritz Schlick, philosopher, 1882; Edward Chace Tolman, psychologist, 1886; Arnold Joseph Toynbee, historian...Bickel), actor, 1975; Agnes Elisabeth Lutyens (Mrs Edward Clark), composer, 1983; Simone de Beauvoir, writer...
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Tolman, Edward Chace
Encyclopedia entry from: Gale Encyclopedia of Psychology
Edward Chace Tolman 1886-1959 American psychologist...died in Berkeley. Further Reading Tolman, Edward Chace. Purposive behavior in animals and men. 1932. Tolman, Edward Chace. Collected papers in psychology...
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Edward Chace Tolman
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography
Edward Chace Tolman Edward Chace Tolman (1886-1959) was an American psychologist and one of the leaders of the behaviorist movement. For Tolman, behavior consists of deliberate acts guided by purposes and expectations. Edward Tolman was born...
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Tolman, Edward
Encyclopedia entry from: International Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences
Tolman, Edward 1886 – 1959 The American psychologist Edward Chace Tolman was born in Newton, Massachusetts...ALSO ; ; ; ; ; ; .; PRIMARY WORKS Tolman, Edward C. 1932. Purposive Behavior in Animals...
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Cognition
Encyclopedia entry from: International Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences
...and Latent Learning The American psychologist Edward Chace Tolman (1886-1959) is best known for his research...never reinforced for that route in the past (Tolman et al. 1946). Tolman ’ s work with latent learning showed...
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Reinforcement Theories
Encyclopedia entry from: International Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences
...instrumental reinforcement included: Edward Lee Thorndike ’ s (1874...Stanton Small (1870-1943) and Edward Chace Tolman (1886-1959) showing that rats...temporal contiguity and repetition, Tolman ’ s cognitive maps and...
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