by david allan van nostrand | Sep 18, 2023 | Human Behavior, Psychology
Edward Thorndike is often considered to be the father of modern Educational Psychology. His Law of Effect posits that when our behavior produces a favorable outcome and the same stimulus is presented again, we are more likely to repeat that behavior because we have...
by david allan van nostrand | Sep 11, 2023 | critical thinking, Human Behavior, Using Information
Concepts are general ideas about things. They are mental representations we use to understand the world around us. Concepts represent groups of related ideas that are organized around a main theme. One example is how the concept of gravity includes physics, theory,...
by david allan van nostrand | Sep 4, 2023 | Americana, Social archaelogy, The Wayback Machine
In 1920, Westinghouse Electric and Manufacturing Company broadcast the live returns of the presidential race between Warren G. Harding and James M. Cox, two-term governor and two-term U.S. Congressman from Ohio. Cox’s running mate was Franklin Delano Roosevelt, who...
