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learning
learning in psychology, the process by which a relatively lasting change in potential behavior occurs as a result of practice or experience. Learning is distinguished from behavioral changes arising from such processes as maturation and illness, but does apply to motor skills, such as driving a car...
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behavior therapy
behavior therapy or behavior modification, in psychology, treatment of human behavioral disorders through the reinforcement of acceptable behavior and suppression of undesirable behavior. The technique had its roots in the work of Ivan Pavlov , a Russian physiologist who observed that animals ...
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aggression
aggression a form of behavior characterized by physical or verbal attack. It may appear either appropriate and self-protective, even constructive, as in healthy self-assertiveness, or inappropriate and destructive. Aggression may be directed outward, against others, or inward, against the self, lea...
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William Wotton
William Wotton 1666-1727, English scholar. He is best known for his Reflections upon Ancient and Modern Learning (1694), a defense of contemporary learning written in response to an essay by Sir William Temple . Both Wotton and Temple were satirized by Swift in Battle of the Books (1704).
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Cremona
Cremona , city (1991 pop. 74,113), capital of Cremona prov., Lombardy, N Italy, on the Po River. It is an agricultural market and an industrial center that produces processed food and fabricated metals. Originally (3d cent. BC) a Roman colony, Cremona was in the Middle Ages an independent commune fr...
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Jinan
Jinan or Tsinan , city (1994 est. pop. 1,659,900), capital of Shandong prov., E China. It lies 3 mi (4.8 km) S of the Huang He (Yellow River) and is a railroad junction on the network linking Shanghai and Nanjing with Tianjin; it has connections to Qingdao and Yantai. Jinan is an industrial cent...
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Vladikavkaz
Vladikavkaz , city (1989 pop. 300,000), capital of North Ossetia-Alania, SE European Russia, on the Terek River and at the northern foot of the Caucasus. It is the starting point of the Georgian Military Road as well as an industrial center with an electric zinc smelter, lead and silver refineries, ...
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Delilah
Delilah , in the Book of Judges, courtesan in the pay of the Philistines, perhaps a Philistine herself, who was loved by Samson . She learned that his strength lay in his long hair and betrayed him to his enemies by cutting it off.
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Joseph Bingham
Joseph Bingham 1668-1723, English theologian. He is known for his learned work on Christian antiquities (10 vol., 1708-22).
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Burrhus Frederic Skinner
Burrhus Frederic Skinner 1904-90, American psychologist, b. Susquehanna, Pa. He received his Ph.D. from Harvard in 1931, and remained there as an instructor until 1936, when he moved to the Univ. of Minnesota (1937-45) and to Indiana Univ., where he was chairman of the psychology department (1945-4...
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