Word: stimuli
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...views on that subject are that the best education occupies a middle ground between old-fashioned education for discipline and the newfangled education for fun. In education he sees a mental and spiritual analogy of embryology: growth as a series of responses to proper stimuli. Habits arise from repeated responses to a stimulus, and the inculcation of socially useful habits is a major function of education. On the relation of Europe's present troubles to thinking habits, Dr. Conklin says...
...entitled "The Inheritance of Emotionality," published in the Sigma Xi Quarterly. Dr. Hall, who though only 30 is chairman of the psychology division at Cleveland's Western Reserve University and who is also getting bald, has spent many of his adult years studying "emotionality" (inherent susceptibility to emotional stimuli). Some researchers, such as Behaviorist John Broadus Watson, have tried to show that emotional endowments are all the same at birth, that differences appearing later are due to environment...
...fear in battle, of some aviators just about to crash, by the observation of dog-owners who see their pets stop more frequently at lampposts when excited, even by the testimony of psychiatrists that in a few unfortunate people the rousing of amorous passion is accompanied by overpowering excretory stimuli...
...think tea is a sissy drink at all. It really depends on the drinker;" answered Nicholas Mellen '39, Varsity football guard, to a query on the Virtues and vices of tea-drinking. The questionnaire is part of a nation-wide survey of college athletes concerning the stimuli of various beverages...
...style method of testing animals' eyesight is to train them to respond to certain visual stimuli. This is laborious, and in the case of some refractory creatures, such as snakes, frogs and Gila monsters, virtually impossible. At the University of Rochester a promising, extravagantly polite young scientist named John Warkentin is investigating animal eyesight with a more efficient technique which requires no training, last week made public some of his findings...