E Rae Harcum
Biographic Data
| ID | 1659868 |
|---|---|
| NAME | E Rae Harcum |
| GIVEN NAMES | E Rae |
| FAMILY NAME | Harcum |
| SIGNATURE | HARCUM E R |
| AFFILIATIONS | The College of William and Mary |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 19 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 19 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1965 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1994 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
A Psychology of Freedom and Dignity
Harcum maintains that the proper assumptions about human nature are established by their relative utility in solving existing human problems. In order to facilitate solutions to familiar problems of daily living, the author advocates a definition of the science of psychology that includes the concepts of human freedom and intrinsic dignity. The author emphasizes the importance of the free will concept to behavioral scientists and practitioners as…
Methodological versus empirical literature
Methodological versus empirical literature
The Two Faces of Freedom and Dignity
Perceived Dignity of Persons with Minimal Voluntary Control over Their Own Behaviors
This study tested the 1971 contention of Skinner that dignity, or worth, must in the view of society be earned by voluntarily performing prosocial acts. Because scientific progress erodes the concept of voluntarism, in Skinner's view people oppose his scientific formulations to protect the concept of dignity. The main hypothesis of the present study was that persons accord intrinsic dignity to others which does not have to be earned through volun…
The Two Faces of Freedom and Dignity
Perceived Dignity of Persons With Minimal Voluntarycontrol Over Their Own Behaviors
The Two Faces of Freedom and Dignity
In their 1989 refutation of Skinner's 1971 practical argument against the concepts of freedom and dignity, Harcum, Rosen, and Burijon overlooked an inconsistency in his argument which is based on the fact that society awards credit or blame because intentionality in prosocial and antisocial behaviors is assumed. By explaining antisocial behaviors in terms of environmental factors, science shows that the actor's behavior is not intentional, thereb…
Perceived Dignity of Persons With Minimal Voluntarycontrol Over Their Own Behaviors
The highly inappropriate calibrations of statistical significance
The highly inappropriate calibrations of statistical significance
The fractionary psychology we try to give away
The fractionary psychology we try to give away
Serial Learning of Heterogeneous Items in Ordered and Unordered Sequences
The present study tests the acquisition-strategy hypothesis of serial learning, which attributes the serial-position effect to consistent orders of item acquisition among individual Ss, and over-all learning difficulty in part to the ease of establishing an order of acquisition. As predicted, lists of CVC trigrams which were organized in terms of associative values to facilitate a temporal beginning-to-end strategy of acquisition were learned fas…
Serial Learning With Shorter Intertrial Interval Than Interstimulus Interval
Defining shape for perceptual element-position curves
Cognitive Anchoring of Different Errors in Continuous Serial Learning
This paper investigated different types of errors in serial learning, via a further analysis of the data obtained by Harcum, Pschirrer, and Coppage (1968) with continuous presentation of 10-trigram lists. The purpose was to discover whether the particular distributions of extralist intruding errors (ELI), intralist intruding errors (ILI), and failures to respond (FTR), which have been obtained using the conventional temporal gap between successiv…
Determinants of Primacy for Items in Continuous Serial Learning
This study investigates the learning of continuous serial lists of nonsense syllables in terms of the strategies by which Ss select the syllables to be learned first. Three hypotheses were tested and verified by the results: (a) Ss select the first temporal item of a series as cognitively first when instructional and structural bases for differentiation are not provided by E; (b) Ss also tend to cognize a structurally isolated item as first in th…
Serial-Position Curve of Verbal Learning after Prolonged Practice
This study investigated the effect of prolonged practice on the serial-position curve of learning. Thirteen Ss learned to a criterion of two perfect recitations by the anticipation method 12 different serial lists of 10 nonsense syllables, one list being learned each day. The hypothesis was that the skewness of the serial-position curve is produced by S's span of immediate memory. The prediction was that an increase in the memory span due to prac…
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Serial-Position Curve of Verbal Learning after Prolonged Practice
This study investigated the effect of prolonged practice on the serial-position curve of learning. Thirteen Ss learned to a criterion of two perfect recitations by the anticipation method 12 different serial lists of 10 nonsense syllables, one list being learned each day. The hypothesis was that the skewness of the serial-position curve is produced by S's span of immediate memory. The prediction was that an increase in the memory span due to prac…
Determinants of Primacy for Items in Continuous Serial Learning
This study investigates the learning of continuous serial lists of nonsense syllables in terms of the strategies by which Ss select the syllables to be learned first. Three hypotheses were tested and verified by the results: (a) Ss select the first temporal item of a series as cognitively first when instructional and structural bases for differentiation are not provided by E; (b) Ss also tend to cognize a structurally isolated item as first in th…
Cognitive Anchoring of Different Errors in Continuous Serial Learning
This paper investigated different types of errors in serial learning, via a further analysis of the data obtained by Harcum, Pschirrer, and Coppage (1968) with continuous presentation of 10-trigram lists. The purpose was to discover whether the particular distributions of extralist intruding errors (ELI), intralist intruding errors (ILI), and failures to respond (FTR), which have been obtained using the conventional temporal gap between successiv…
Defining shape for perceptual element-position curves
Serial Learning With Shorter Intertrial Interval Than Interstimulus Interval
Serial Learning of Heterogeneous Items in Ordered and Unordered Sequences
The present study tests the acquisition-strategy hypothesis of serial learning, which attributes the serial-position effect to consistent orders of item acquisition among individual Ss, and over-all learning difficulty in part to the ease of establishing an order of acquisition. As predicted, lists of CVC trigrams which were organized in terms of associative values to facilitate a temporal beginning-to-end strategy of acquisition were learned fas…
The fractionary psychology we try to give away
The fractionary psychology we try to give away
The highly inappropriate calibrations of statistical significance
The highly inappropriate calibrations of statistical significance
Methodological versus empirical literature
Methodological versus empirical literature
The Two Faces of Freedom and Dignity
Perceived Dignity of Persons with Minimal Voluntary Control over Their Own Behaviors
This study tested the 1971 contention of Skinner that dignity, or worth, must in the view of society be earned by voluntarily performing prosocial acts. Because scientific progress erodes the concept of voluntarism, in Skinner's view people oppose his scientific formulations to protect the concept of dignity. The main hypothesis of the present study was that persons accord intrinsic dignity to others which does not have to be earned through volun…
The Two Faces of Freedom and Dignity
Perceived Dignity of Persons With Minimal Voluntarycontrol Over Their Own Behaviors
The Two Faces of Freedom and Dignity
In their 1989 refutation of Skinner's 1971 practical argument against the concepts of freedom and dignity, Harcum, Rosen, and Burijon overlooked an inconsistency in his argument which is based on the fact that society awards credit or blame because intentionality in prosocial and antisocial behaviors is assumed. By explaining antisocial behaviors in terms of environmental factors, science shows that the actor's behavior is not intentional, thereb…
Perceived Dignity of Persons With Minimal Voluntarycontrol Over Their Own Behaviors
A Psychology of Freedom and Dignity
Harcum maintains that the proper assumptions about human nature are established by their relative utility in solving existing human problems. In order to facilitate solutions to familiar problems of daily living, the author advocates a definition of the science of psychology that includes the concepts of human freedom and intrinsic dignity. The author emphasizes the importance of the free will concept to behavioral scientists and practitioners as…
Psychology (19 works) · Social Psychology (10 works) · Mathematics (9 works) · Political science (8 works) · Cognitive psychology (7 works) · Computer Science (7 works) · Dignity (7 works) · Social Psychology (7 works) · Statistics (6 works) · Law (5 works)