Word: stimuli
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Informal discussions and lower-level Humanities courses ranked as the strongest stimuli of religious interest; religious, social service organizations and upper-level courses in the Social and Natural Sciences were least influential...
...parents of three very dynamic children who respond to normal stimuli with expected actions.' None of them learned to turn over from back to front before crawling...
...intern marked the girl's chart "Possible 100% HY" (hysteria), noted "no abnormal reflexes, no response to painful stimuli," summoned an attendant to carry her to a sixth-floor ward...
...Msgr. Ronald Knox in Stimuli (Sheed & Ward, $2.25), published this week...
...addition, it can also hear a whistle, but at first it does not react to the sound. The whistle, however, is "remembered" in the form of long-lasting oscillations in the new eight-tube brain. When the creature hears a whistle just before it sees a light, the two stimuli are blended and remembered together. After this has happened enough times, these combined memory oscillations acquire a compelling power. When the whistle blows again, they force the mechanical turtle to react (scamper forward) just as if it had seen a food-promising light...