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National Black Business Trade Association (NBBTA) Celebrates Black History Month – Radio One

Sat, 19 Feb 2011 04:46:46 +0000

www.nbbta.org Hughes was born to Helen Jones Woods, a trombonist with the International Sweetheart of Rythm, and William Alfred Woods, who was the first African-American to earn an accounting degree from Creighton University (a university which Cathy herself would later attend). The family lived in the Logan Fontenelle Housing Project while Hughes’ father attended college. After working for KOWH, Hughes was offered a job as a lecturer at the School of Communications at Howard University in Washington, DC In 1975, she became general manager of the university’s radio station, WHUR-FM. In 1979, Hughes founded Radio One, and with then-husband Dewey Hughes bought AM radio station WOL 1450 in Washington, DC..] After the previous employees had destroyed the facility,[] she faced financial difficulties and subsequently lost her home and moved with her young son to live at the station. Her fortunes began to change when she revamped the R&B station to a 24-hour talk radio format. Hughes and Radio One went on to own 70 radio stations in nine major markets in the US As of 2007, Hughes’s son, Alfred Liggins, III, serves as CEO and president of Radio One, and Hughes as chairperson. In January 2004, Radio One launched TV-ONE, a national cable and satellite television network which bills itself as the “lifestyle and entertainment network for African-American adults.” Hughes interviews prominent personalities, usually in the entertainment industry, for the network’s talk program TV One on …

History and Military History Degrees & Certificates at APU

Thu, 03 Feb 2011 04:45:26 +0000

One of American Public University’s most popular programs, our online history degrees and certificates cover a diverse range of historical genres. Study civilization’s most fascinating historical events and how the context of these events can help us understand modern societies. At APU you will hone your critical thinking, writing, and research skills — and take advantage of our outstanding online research library that has access to special academic texts, databases and more. Learn more at: www.studyatapu.com/history

What is the History of Health Psychology: History of Psychology

Thu, 29 Jul 2010 05:19:20 +0000

History of Psychology : Experimental Psychology

In the second half of the 19th century (1879), psychology became a more organized experimental field of study when Wilhelm Wundt founded the first phychological research laboratory in Leipzig, Germany. Wundt and others of that time approached psychology with: “Every physical event has a mental counterpart, and every mental event has a physical counterpart.”

At this time, Ivan Pavlov also made important contributions to the science of psychology. Pavlov developed procedures associated with classical conditioning. One of his well known experiments was conditioning a dog to associate a bell ringing (stimulus) with food. The effect: after a few repetitions, the dog produced a physical response to the sound of the bell – he salivated. Pavlov referred to this learned relationship as a conditional reflex (now called Conditioned Response).
History of Psychology: Applied Psychology

In the 1890s, soon after the development of experimental psychology, various kinds of applied psychology began to appear as well:

* scientific pedagogy (science of teaching)
* educational theory
* application of psychology to industry, law, and other professions
* first psychological clinic
* first program of mental testing

One of the most well known psychiatrists, Sigmund Freud, developed an independent approach to the study of the mind called psychoanalysis, which has been widely influential.

History of Psychology: Behavioral Psychology

The 20th century saw the formulation of behaviorism which was popularized by B.F. Skinner who was recently named in a survey as the most influential psychologist of his time. Behaviorism proposed limiting psychological study to that of overt behavior, since that could be quantified and easily measured. Skinner influenced education as well as psychology. He asserted that positive reinforcement is more effective at changing and establishing behavior than punishment. This theory has also influenced parenting methods.

Cognitive Psychology

The final decades of the 20th century saw the decline of behaviorism and the rise of an interdisciplinary approach to studying the human mind – how we think, known collectively as cognitive science. Such an understanding of the mind may be applied to other research domains, such as artificial intelligence.
Psychology Schools

In a stressful global society today, psychologists need to make adjustments to help meet the needs of the ever growing populations. As a century that witnessed great advances in mind sciences draws to a close, the need to address where we might be going in the next era will be driven by those entering the exciting field of psychology in the 21st century.