On Sun, 12 Jun 2011 09:54:01 -0700, John Kulig wrote: >Haphard guess - sounds like BF Skinner?
Bingo! It is listed as an "unsourced" statement on the Wikiquote page. http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/B._F._Skinner >I also remember a sentiment similar to that from E.C. Tolman Now, I am surprised/puzzled by this. I've read a couple of things by Tolman and though he was a behaviorist I always viewed him a very different sort of behaviorist from Skinner. His "purposive behaviorism" seemed to me to point to the importance of planning and setting goals, especially in problem solving (which is why Tolman is cited as an influence in Miller, Galanter, & Pribram's "Plans and the Structure of Behavior" IIRC). I may be wrong but I thought that Tolman's position allowed for one to have some control over one's life and "destiny", that the person that one became was not simply the result of the mostly accidental events that one experienced throughout one's life. -Mike Palij New York University [email protected] ------Original Message------ From: Mike Palij To: Teaching in the Psychological Sciences (TIPS) Cc: Mike Palij ReplyTo: Teaching in the Psychological Sciences (TIPS) Subject: re: [tips] Help with author of quotation Sent: Jun 12, 2011 12:28 PM On Sun, 12 Jun 2011 08:59:39 -0700, Michael Sylvester wrote: >" Men are a biological necessity,but a sociological disgrace" What? Aren't satisfied with the answer you got last time you asked this question? See: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/msg22414.html However, to be fair, though the quote has been attributed to Margaret Mead there is nothing on the web that identifies where or when Mead made such a statement. Nor does it appear on Wikiquote. So, where did it come from? Perhaps the source is less important than the sentiment. Consider the following quote: |I did not direct my life. I didn’t design it. I never made decisions. |Things always came up and made them for me. That’s what life is. Who allegedly said this? Hint: It's a psychologist. --- You are currently subscribed to tips as: [email protected]. To unsubscribe click here: http://fsulist.frostburg.edu/u?id=13090.68da6e6e5325aa33287ff385b70df5d5&n=T&l=tips&o=10971 or send a blank email to leave-10971-13090.68da6e6e5325aa33287ff385b70df...@fsulist.frostburg.edu
