Word: stimuli
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...special cells have been isolated now, although how or why the current is generated still lies in the field of conjecture. A cat, wired to tap the current which results from the stimuli of sound waves, will convert the sound waves into current surges which can be amplified and either photographed or played over a loud-speaker...
...realize themselves and engage in any kind of rational action they must find for themselves certain values and a feeling tone that may sift the stimuli they encounter in some ordered way. Students should be aware that learning is a great deal more than the acquisition of details and that it is but a basis for fostering wisdom and understanding, a preparation for action that cannot be decisive or personally worthwhile without some conscious formulation of values...
...policy so radical in its implications that it has antagonized the leading business interests of the country and has precluded cooperation between Washington and Wall Street. In this mutual antipathy and distrust, many economists have found a leading cause of the failure of industry to respond to the artificial stimuli embodied in recovery legislation. With this obstacle removed from the path to prosperity, the government new faces again the barrier of labor hostility. But with 20,000,000 people on the federal relief rolls, it is impossible to understand the opposition of sincere labor leaders to a program whose stated...
...faculty members. Both apes and moppets were silently trained to release a telegraph key when stimulated in turn by a sight, a sound, a touch. The apes' reaction times were as fast as the children's. Even when the subjects were trained to a "choice response" (two keys, two stimuli) the animals held their own with the humans...
...name proposed for an unknown substance whose removal from living cells seems to explain anesthesia. When certain water plants are soaked in distilled water their cells become unable to transmit stimuli, apparently because "R" is dissolved out. So the effect of everyday medicinal anesthetics may be due to a removal of "R" from human cells.-Drs. J. V. Osterhout and S. E. Hill of the Rockefeller Institute...