Word: behavior
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Various incidental findings proved to have considerable clinical importance. The behavior of certain dyes in the tissues showed that, once the lymphatics had been destroyed, the fluids formerly carried off by them circulated purely by gravity, passing from the legs to the abdominal region, whence it was carried to parts of the body whose lymphatics were intact. (A lymphatic is a vessel which carries the watery tissue fluids into the blood stream.) One woman who came to Dr. Homans for treatment was sent home and told to keep her leg elevated for one week. At the end of that time...
Most psychologists, in attempting to be scientific, hope to discover general laws about mind or behavior, which, like the laws of physics and chemistry, hold true for all similar cases. In so doing, they overlook the personalities of the individuals from whom their data are gathered. In this book Dr. Allport holds that psychologists may also arrive at valid generalizations by studying the unique personalities of individuals. "A general law," he says, "may be a law that tells how uniquencess comes about." In pursuing this apporach he introduces the reader to a field of interest new to most Americans, though...
...state they paste a poster on your windshield which claims that the license plates identify the behavior of the driver. Similarly, it should be help in mind that where your feet trod is a reflection of your conduct. In college or in life one cannot afford to be thoughtless in any sense of the word. In New York's Washington Square--where the Fifth Avenue busses route and non-descripts fill the benches, there is a sign on the grass with an imaginative, although true message. It runs something like this...
Fish Minds. Professor James Gray of Cambridge declared that fish: 1) perform simple reflex acts; 2) form associations between events; 3) accomplish difficult migrations apparently involving memory; 4) display emotion. "As far as I can form a judgment," said he, "these four types of behavior include most, if not all, of the activities of the human race. ... I do not believe we can put our finger on any one of our mental powers and say, 'Herein are we a race apart, elevated above the rest of the animal world...
Once the Christian churches, through their moral codes and their theological dialectic, impinged powerfully upon the behavior and thoughts of ordinary men. Today many a nominal Christian is tired of hearing about morals, and his uninformed indifference to theology is such that his pastors burden him with as little of it as possible. .In recent years churchmen have entered the more fruitful fields of economics and sociology, which to a great extent were tilled before the clergy arrived. Twice last week this new sociological trend of religion made news...