Walden Two

the title of a 1948 novel by B. F. Skinner set in a self-reliant experimental community based on operant conditioning principles of behavior change. The name derives from Walden, or Life in the Woods (1854), a series of essays in which U.S. naturalist and writer Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862) describes his experiences of individual self-reliance.

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Psychology term of the day

November 22nd 2024

cortical–subcortical motor loop

a loop, made up of projections between the motor cortex and structures in the basal ganglia and the thalamus, that monitors and sequences ongoing motor behaviors.