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Hunter B. Shirley

Hunter B. Shirley is a science topic covered in the lgStudy science library. This page brings together a partial reference excerpt, illustrations, worked examples, real-world applications and a short study plan, so you can understand Hunter B. Shirley rather than just read about it. In short: Hunter B. Shirley (December 25, 1927 – November 1, 2010), born Hunter Barentine Shirley, was an American licensed clinical psychologist.

Key takeaways

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Reproduce the core statement of Hunter B. Shirley from memory before moving on to harder problems.

Reference excerpt

Hunter B. Shirley (December 25, 1927 – November 1, 2010), born Hunter Barentine Shirley, was an American licensed clinical psychologist. He is credited with having developed the most sophisticated model of the human mind of his time.

Life Shirley was an associate professor at Wisconsin State University where he headed a psychological research laboratory devoted to evaluating the world's first analog model of the mind. He was later the Director of the International Division of the American Institute of Applied Behavioral Research and Human Relations Training. Once Director of Behavior Analysis, Inc. of St. Louis, he was subsequently director of the Counseling and Testing Center at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette, and later served as the Chief Clinical Psychologist of the Lafayette Institute of Behavior Therapy and Crisis Management. With offices in Staré Splavy near Prague, Shirley was in charge of a "think tank" performing behavioral science research for NGOs and government agencies.

Works Shirley was the author of a number of books, includingMapping the Mind, and a popular self-help book Your Mind May Be Programmed Against You!. His final work The Human Mind: A Guided Tour compiled his theories on the emotional system and the human mind. It includes over 300 diagrams of the emotional system based on the cybernetics approach he presented in Mapping The Mind, and in published articles.

(1972) Psychovector analysis: A new discipline within the behavioral sciences. Journal of Psychology, 80, 135 – 145. (1976) Emotion as a Three-Valued Variable. Psychological Reports (1977) Toward an Operable Simulation Model of Personality. Journal of Psychology (1981) Your Mind May Be Programmed Against You (1983) Mapping The Mind ISBN 0-911012-19-2 (1996) An Introduction to Psychofeedback Training: Paper presented to the Slovenian National Academy of the Arts and Science (2000) The Uses of Psychofeedback Training in Psychiatry. An address delivered to the Palackeho University Medical School, Olomouc, Czech Republic (2003) Designing "Hard Science" Type Models of Perception, Cognition, and Memory. Theory and Science 4:2] (2004) " Psychofeedback training: Mood Monitoring. Personality Study and Group Behavior Vol.24

Private life Hunter B. Shirley married Anne Shirley. He had three children Faustine, Remy and Raphaele Shirley. In 1995 he moved from Lafayette, Louisiana, where he held a private practice for over 15 years, to Central Europe. There he remarried Ava Shirley with whom he lived for the last ten years of his life until he died in 2010 at Česká Lípa, in the Czech Republic.

Worked examples

Example 1 — a first encounter with Hunter B. Shirley

Start with the simplest possible case. Write down what Hunter B. Shirley claims or describes in one sentence, then invent the smallest concrete situation in which that sentence is true. In science, the smallest case is usually a single object, a single equation or a single measurement. Check that every symbol or term in your sentence has a meaning in that case.

Example 2 — changing one variable

Take the situation from Example 1 and change exactly one quantity: double it, halve it, or set it to zero. Predict what should happen to Hunter B. Shirley before you calculate. Comparing your prediction with the result is the fastest way to find out whether you understand the idea or only the words.

Example 3 — an exam-style question

Typical questions about Hunter B. Shirley ask you to (a) state it precisely, (b) apply it to given data, and (c) explain a limitation. Practise writing all three answers in under five minutes; the third part is what separates a full-mark answer from an average one.

Applications of Hunter B. Shirley

In research: Hunter B. Shirley appears in science research whenever the underlying quantities have to be modelled precisely. Papers usually cite it as a starting assumption and then explore where it breaks down.
In technology and industry: Engineering practice reuses Hunter B. Shirley in design rules, simulations and safety margins. Knowing the idea lets you read a specification sheet and understand why the numbers look the way they do.
In the classroom: Hunter B. Shirley is common in secondary-school and first-year university syllabi. It links to neighbouring topics 1927 births, 2010 deaths, American clinical psychologists, so understanding it makes those chapters shorter.
In everyday life: Look for Hunter B. Shirley outside the textbook — in sport, cooking, traffic, electronics or the sky above you. An example you found yourself is remembered far longer than one you were given.

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How to study Hunter B. Shirley in 20 minutes

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Frequently asked questions

What is Hunter B. Shirley in simple terms?

Hunter B. Shirley (December 25, 1927 – November 1, 2010), born Hunter Barentine Shirley, was an American licensed clinical psychologist.

Why does Hunter B. Shirley matter?

Because it connects several science ideas at once: it gives you a definition you can apply, a quantity you can calculate, and a way to check whether a result is plausible.

How should I study Hunter B. Shirley?

Read the excerpt, restate it from memory, then work through the examples and applications listed on this page. The five-step study plan above takes about twenty minutes.

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