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FRANK AMBROSE BEACH
FRANK AMBROSE BEACH
Pages 64-85
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behavior not only with respect to the two-way relationships with neural en c! endocrine processes but in dynamic relation to the complex environment in which animals live.
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heat! of the Department of Music at Kansas State Teachers College in Emporia.
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It was a third faculty member, Karl LashIey, a notoriously poor classroom teacher, who exerted a lasting influence on Beach. Lashicy allowed students to work on their own, and Beach found the laboratory environment and the prob lems of physiological analysis in which LashIey was interested to be irresistible.
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Anna Beth Oclenweller, a fellow Kansan, who hac! been studying at the Goodman School of Theater at the Chicago Art Institute en c!
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that the loss of copulatory behavior that follower! the cortical lesions Beach hac!
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An exception appeared during the early Yale years with a series of articles that dealt with learned behavioral patterns, which he publisher! in Natural History magazine.
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of Scientific Directions of the Roscoe B Jackson Memorial Laboratory in Bar Harbor, Maine.
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determine his own teaching assignments, have ample research space, be given a fulltime secretary, en c! never be asker!
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working with a co-author on one more article. Among his honors were honorary doctorates from McGill University, Williams College, and Emporia State University, the Warren Mecial of the Society of Experimental Psychologists, en c!
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such behavioral patterns as copulation, parental behavior, and activity patterns. Themes that would be prevalent in his work emerged early.
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to act on neural mechanisms for the clisplay of copulatory behavior. Among his views was the belief that hormones have a more important effect in the Tower vertebrates, the sexual activity of higher vertebrates is more clepenclent on cortical mechanisms.
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problem areas they investigate. Beach wrote various articles acivocating the stucly of instinctive behavior, or what was more often termec!
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In a changing cultural climate, he later realizer! the previously unrecognized complexity of female behavior.
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much effort to writing a textbook on behavioral endocrinology, but like the textbook on comparative psychology, it lay incomplete at his cleath. In his series of studies of clogs, concluctec!
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causal similarity. In conclusion, Frank Beach was a firm believer in basic research for the sake of knowlecige, with practical application a secondary concern.
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in careful en c! precise behavioral measurement, but the mere gathering of facts through what he caller!
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In Memoriam: Frank Ambrose Beach. Psychobiology 16~1988)
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33:163207. 1944 Relative effects of androgen upon the mating behavior of male rats subjected to forebrain injury or castration.
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21 :943-49. 1967 Cerebral and hormonal control of reflexive mechanisms involved in copulatory behavior.
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84 BIOGRAPHICAL MEMOIRS 1976 Sexual attractivity, proceptivity, and receptivity in female mammals.
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