B Michael Thorne
Biographic Data
| ID | 4239971 |
|---|---|
| NAME | B Michael Thorne |
| GIVEN NAMES | B Michael |
| FAMILY NAME | Thorne |
| SIGNATURE | THORNE B M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Mississippi State University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 15 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 4 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 15 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1970 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2007 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Personality Characteristics of Martial Artists
This study used the MMPI-2 to explore the personalities of yellow-belt and black-belt martial artists. A total of 40 participants completed the MMPI-2 and a demographic questionnaire. Black-belt females tended to be less defensive than were other martial artists, but also displayed more paranoia and more anger than average. Females of both ranks reported a higher degree of anxiety and health concerns than did males in the study, and black-belt fe…
Anthropological and Sociological Perspectives on the Study of Children
Representation, Responsibility and Reliability in Participant-Observation
When Was Rosalie Rayner Born
A search by James B. Watson for definitive proof of his mother's date of birth ultimately proved fruitless, although one piece of evidence he discovered strongly suggests that Rosalie Rayner was born in 1899, not 1898 as some sources indicate. Watson believes that his father, John Broadus Watson, wrote his 1936 autobiographical essay before Rayner's death because afterward he was too devastated to have written it
When Was Rosalie Rayner Born
Contributions to the History of Psychology
Contributions to the History of Psychology
The possible reasons for the overly self-critical nature of John B. Watson's autobiographical essay are examined. Of particular interest are the date and events surrounding the terminal illness of Watson's second wife, Rosalie Rayner. The central question—Did Rayner die before or after Watson wrote his essay?—is impossible to answer from the contradictory information in the current historical literature. Based on a contemporary source, it is almo…
Robert Thompson
Robert Thompson spent a year as a research assistant at the Yerkes Laboratory of Primate Biology in Orange Park, Florida, where Karl Lashley was the director. After Lashley's death, Thompson began a search for the “locus of the engram,” which Lashley had been unable to find, eventually providing evidence supporting Wilder Penfield's conception of a centrencephalic system. Although Thompson's search was ultimately more successful than Lashley's, h…
Eminent psychologists or psychological eminence
Eminent psychologists or psychological eminence
Linked Lives
The Effects of Colony Differences on Muricidal Behavior in Rats within One Strain
Two experiments were performed to investigate the origin of colony differences in muricidal behavior within the same strain of rat. In the first experiment (N = 52 male Long-Evans rats), the first generation offspring of parents from two different colonies were reared under identical conditions and tested for muricide. No differences were found, indicating that an environmental effect accounted for previously observed differences. The second expe…
Recovery of Function
Studies pertaining to recovery of function following either serial ablations or early brain damage were reviewed. In general, serial damage leads to greater functional sparing than simultaneous damage to the same area. Similarly, brain damage sustained early in the developmental history of the organism is less traumatic in terms of subsequent behavior than later injury. Variables relevant to the generality of the phenomena were emphasized, and po…
No Sparing of Function Following Serial Posterior Neodecortication in Rats Given Interoperative Training
Rats trained to make a white-black discrimination in a two-choice chamber were subjected to the following treatments: Group C, normal controls; Group 1-St, simultaneous posterior neocortex removal; Group 2-St, successive damage to posterior neocortex with an interoperative interval of one week; Group 2-StT, successive damage to posterior neocortex with specific training during a seven-day interoperative period. All brain-damaged groups were signi…
Maternal and filial behavior in monkeys
Maternal and filial behavior in monkeys
No Sparing of Function Following Serial Posterior Neodecortication in Rats Given Interoperative Training
Rats trained to make a white-black discrimination in a two-choice chamber were subjected to the following treatments: Group C, normal controls; Group 1-St, simultaneous posterior neocortex removal; Group 2-St, successive damage to posterior neocortex with an interoperative interval of one week; Group 2-StT, successive damage to posterior neocortex with specific training during a seven-day interoperative period. All brain-damaged groups were signi…
Recovery of Function
Studies pertaining to recovery of function following either serial ablations or early brain damage were reviewed. In general, serial damage leads to greater functional sparing than simultaneous damage to the same area. Similarly, brain damage sustained early in the developmental history of the organism is less traumatic in terms of subsequent behavior than later injury. Variables relevant to the generality of the phenomena were emphasized, and po…
The Effects of Colony Differences on Muricidal Behavior in Rats within One Strain
Two experiments were performed to investigate the origin of colony differences in muricidal behavior within the same strain of rat. In the first experiment (N = 52 male Long-Evans rats), the first generation offspring of parents from two different colonies were reared under identical conditions and tested for muricide. No differences were found, indicating that an environmental effect accounted for previously observed differences. The second expe…
Linked Lives
Eminent psychologists or psychological eminence
Eminent psychologists or psychological eminence
Robert Thompson
Robert Thompson spent a year as a research assistant at the Yerkes Laboratory of Primate Biology in Orange Park, Florida, where Karl Lashley was the director. After Lashley's death, Thompson began a search for the “locus of the engram,” which Lashley had been unable to find, eventually providing evidence supporting Wilder Penfield's conception of a centrencephalic system. Although Thompson's search was ultimately more successful than Lashley's, h…
Contributions to the History of Psychology
Contributions to the History of Psychology
The possible reasons for the overly self-critical nature of John B. Watson's autobiographical essay are examined. Of particular interest are the date and events surrounding the terminal illness of Watson's second wife, Rosalie Rayner. The central question—Did Rayner die before or after Watson wrote his essay?—is impossible to answer from the contradictory information in the current historical literature. Based on a contemporary source, it is almo…
When Was Rosalie Rayner Born
A search by James B. Watson for definitive proof of his mother's date of birth ultimately proved fruitless, although one piece of evidence he discovered strongly suggests that Rosalie Rayner was born in 1899, not 1898 as some sources indicate. Watson believes that his father, John Broadus Watson, wrote his 1936 autobiographical essay before Rayner's death because afterward he was too devastated to have written it
When Was Rosalie Rayner Born
Representation, Responsibility and Reliability in Participant-Observation
Anthropological and Sociological Perspectives on the Study of Children
Personality Characteristics of Martial Artists
This study used the MMPI-2 to explore the personalities of yellow-belt and black-belt martial artists. A total of 40 participants completed the MMPI-2 and a demographic questionnaire. Black-belt females tended to be less defensive than were other martial artists, but also displayed more paranoia and more anger than average. Females of both ranks reported a higher degree of anxiety and health concerns than did males in the study, and black-belt fe…
Psychology (14 works) · Psychoanalysis (6 works) · Academic and Historical Perspectives in Psychology (5 works) · Social Psychology (4 works) · Clinical Psychology (3 works) · Developmental psychology (3 works) · Medicine (3 works) · Sociology (3 works) · Watson (3 works) · Anthropology (2 works)