Word: reflex
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Looking back over two and half months of his televised "Psychology One" course, Edwin G. Boring, professor of Psychology, felt that the chief value of TV lies in its ability to give close-up views of small objects. "We even showed a pupillary reflex last week," Boring said. "Half the screen was filled up with an eye, and you could see the pupil expanding and contracting under the influence of light...
...conducting a study in 'reflex motivation,'" he said, and crossing his legs assumed his best professional look. "You know that people all over the country have gone Ivy--Oxford grey, back straps, and button-downs and so forth--and we want to find out what the Ivy League is going to do about...
...were probably wearing black work-shirts and dark navy sweaters. His interest was reawakened:--"Where do they get them? Some small specialty shop, I suppose. Quite often, a small store will come out with something which catches the buyer's eye; we mass-produce it, and every-one buys. Reflex motivation, you know...
...materialist] system," he said, "confronts disjointed man, driven about as he is by a compulsion to flee and hide from God ... in the guise of exact science ... In the name of science God is explained as a mere reflex of a primitive state of fear . . . Thus the system promises man deliverance from God and, simultaneously, deliverance from the anxiety deep down in himself. Suppose the flaming cherub were not really posted before the closed gate of Paradise at all? Suppose the gate were unlocked and all you need do is to enter, in mighty concert with progressive humanity . . .? Would...
...University of Oregon's Dr. Frederick P. Haugen reports that dogs raised from puppyhood in a solitary, restricted environment, so that they cannot hurt themselves or be hurt, do not act as though they feel pain when tested in early maturity. Even Sherrington's "imperative protective reflex" is missing-these animals have to learn to stay away from a hot stove, and it takes repeated burns to teach them. Dr. Haugen comments: "The influence of past experience and learning is evident in any group of patients as one observes the notable differences in their reactions to stress...