was actually -- began his education, his graduate education in philosophy with none other than john dewey. another link to our thinkers in the course. he becomes almost invents the field of behaviorist psychology. he begins with animals and looking at how animals were conditioned by stimulus response and moves on to people. of course, infants as we see here. he will teach at johns hopkins for a time. that of course, modern emblem of the modern university but will be forced out due to his divorce, which was brought on by an affair with his co-author here, one of his students. so not everything has changed. right? he could lose his university position for his divorce. and his affair. he will become a popular expert as well as a scientific expert on child rearing. eventually, also advertising. we might think about the links between something like stimulus response and these experiments with children and the field of advertising. what is going to get a consumer to respond? this is watson. this is psychological care of infant and child, a new psychology maybe for a new century. he is writing l

truman against a dewey. grew up in a traditionally republican family and i was very interested in politics. i was still in high school. i wanted to stay up to hear how it came out and i was too tired. the next morning, i went -- my father was in the bathroom and i said, dad, who won? he said "truman" like it was the end of the world. 25-30 years later, i went home, i was sitting there with him after dinner. he launched into this whole tirade about how the country was going to hell. i had heard that all my life. [laughter] then he paused and he said, to bad old harry is it still in the white house. [laughter] oh, i've got a story about our next character onstage. when the panama city became a big event in washington, i was called by president carter to come down and advise him on what the policy ought to be. my book on panama had just been published. i was turned over to a very nice, young aide's assistant. she has subsequently become a good friend. we were setting at this tiny tiny little office, and it was

was actually -- began his education, his graduate education in philosophy with none other than john deweyother link to our thinkers in the course. he becomes almost invents the field of behaviorist psychology. he begins with animals and looking at how animals were conditioned by stimulus response and moves on to people. of course, infants as we see here. he will teach at johns hopkins for a time. that of course, modern emblem of the modern university but will be forced out due to his divorce, which was brought on by an affair with his co-author here, one of his students. so not everything has changed. right? he could lose his university position for his divorce. and his affair. he will become a popular expert as well as a scientific expert on child rearing. eventually, also advertising. we might think about the links between something like stimulus response and these experiments with children and the field of advertising. what is going to get a consumer to respond? this is watson. this is psychological care of infant and child, a new psychology maybe for a new century. he is writing later

model turned supermodel turned actress turned mutant whom you can see defending both humanity and the deweyarians." it premieres sunday at 8:00 on tnt. please welcome rebecca romijn. [ cheers and applause ] >> jimmy: you look great. thank you for coming. >> thanks for having me. >> jimmy: how is everything? are you in the holiday spirit at home? is your husband -- >> yeah, everybody's pretty good. >> jimmy: good. >> holidays are going by all right. had a little bit of a mishap over thanksgiving. >> jimmy: for real? you did? >> not me, jerry. >> jimmy: oh. jerry did. what happened? >> yes, well -- this thanksgiving we had it at our house and on wednesday night we were remarking about what a great disaster-free thanksgiving it was and he took our kids on a play date with our friend, going to a trampoline place. >> jimmy: bad idea. >> somebody jumped up into his face and he cut his tongue right in the middle. and just got stitches. he kept saying, something's flapping around in there. >> jimmy: oh, my god. >> something's flapping around in there. and he did do thanksgiving without stitches, bu

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if you want to go to the parties, dewey beach will have a drop the ball party tonight.e at the ice rink in wilmington where i'm not skating. >> i promise you we won't put you on a blaper reel. >>> septa plans to make it easier for partiers to get around on new year's eve. it's made a number of changes for the festivities. here's a live look at 30th street station. there will be all-night subway service tonight, new year's eve. extra trains will receive center city after tonight's celebrations. and there's added service to trenton for passengers heading to new york city through new jersey transit. as for new year's day, tomorrow septa will operate on a sunday and holiday schedule. >>> are you looking for something fun to do to celebrate the new year? right new on nbc10.com, a gallery of local events. see how pennsylvania new jersey and delaware are welcoming 2015. download the new nbc 10 app for iphone to get breaking news stories and streaming video as they happen. >>> now your nbc 10 first alert weather. >> we are just about 6 1/2 hours away from a brand new year alrea

information a six-year-old dewey needsle for information to checkbook. in terms of what we are talking aboutmillions of people are loog at the exchanges of today, i tho start with better information about who and what is in the network and what are the costs to consumers and charlie mentions the support of accuracy taking into account a wide range of differences supporting an effort to develop a single composite quality measure focusing on the particular needs of consumers. ofagree with robert in terms patient reported information we seek collective patient application as a quality measure, in a focus on outcome. finally, in terms of consumers, they need help doing this. average person will not be able to make the kind of cost quality equations that we need in terms of coming up with values without support. medicare beneficiaries get the through assistance programs. we have consumer assistance need to think about expanding that program. as inch of consumers public policy, there are important pieces to really think about. were one of the first organizatio

party, had been repeatedly jobbed out of the presidency by people like wendell wilkey, and thomas dewey, and yes, dwight eisenhower, and here's nelson rockefeller, knowing he doesn't have the votes, knowing it can only hurt goldwater in the fall, but nevertheless, standing up to make a five-minute speech on national tv, denouncing political extremism. which he specifies as the american communist party, the klu klux klan, and the john birch society, at the mention of which the place erupts. there are a lot of birchers there, a lot of would-be birchers there theological bertschers if not necessarily formal members and it's a moment i would argue rarely in american history is a moment of transforming change. the place went on and on and on. booing him. he understood instinctively -- and more to the point, the goldwater leaders understood, oh, my god, this is extremism. this -- we are making the argument, we're confirming rockefeller's worst allegations in a way that lyndon johnson and the democrats never could. arguably goldwater never recovered from that moment but he did win. he formaliz

watson will have a very different view.y and a different view from his mentor duey mentor dewey in consciouse he said all we have to go on is the way people behave and what they do. and the psychological insight and action. he called freudism voodooism, and will be a leader of the behav behaviorism. so watch and study behavior. stimulus response with rats or with with children is the way that en is yothu build behavior. you use !l rewards and punishments. and you can thereby build in instincts in children and habits. you can internalize things like a schedule. li again, think about christine frederick and her schedule her sc babies. if you feed them atbaby the same time every day, that's what time they'll get hungry every day. if you put them down to sleep at the same time every day they'llsome be ready for bed the same time every day. very popular at the time. you can sense the radicalism the shock of a piece of wrqk)(h @r(t&háhp &hc% like this, right? okay. if we make the argument, make the case that all cultures wh inventy psychologies why this psychology now? what is it about watson's vi

so said john dewey.ca's favorite unemployed cowgirl, sandra day o'connor has observed from one end of this country to the other, knowledge of our system of governments, i wrote rights and responsibilities of citizens is not passed down through the gene pool. it must be taught. we have work to do. each of these three patriots was describing the essential historic mission of our nations of schools. admission as important as foundational today as it are as has been, as it always will be. for those of us who care about these of ehealth about our nation, and for those of us who care about people becoming civic lee engaged, we must care about the foundational civic mission of our schools. and folks, we are not talking about your grandpa's civic learning. were not talking about old-fashioned civic that that thick education. were talking about new, exciting race of how to be engaged. my calling, the first civic social studies teacher in our nation, susan griffin, is going to talk a little bit about that. susan.

democracy needs to be reborn in each generation, and education is its midwife, so said john dewey.e recently, america's favorite unemployed cowgirl, justice sandra day o'connor, has reserved from one end of this country to the other knowledge of our system of government, our rights and responsibilities as citizens is not passed down through the gene pool, it must be taught, and we have work to do. each of these three patriots was describing the essential, historic civic mission of our nation's schools, a mission as important as foundational today as it always has been, as it always will be. for those of us who care about the civic health of our nation, for those of us who care about people becoming civically engaged, we must care about the foundational civic mission of our schools. and, folks, we're not talking about your grandpa's civic learning. we're not talking about old-fashioned didactic civic education. we're talking about new, exciting ways to learn how to be civically engaged. my colleague, the first social studies teacher in our nation, susan griffin, is going to talk a l