Psychological Bulletin (Volume 15) (Paperback)

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: mental life is the fact of value, the tendency of psychic organisms first to select and then keep within their control whatever is necessary to their life" (31). For this type of behavior he proposes the term aesimation. The discussion illustrates the chasm between volun- taristic and comparative psychology. Two contributions from neighboring fields may be noted. Fuller (2) in proposing a revision of nomenclature protests against the use of proper names in brain and cord anatomy (e. g., Rolando, Gowers, Goll, Clarke) on psychological grounds. Such names involve abstract memory; they bear no reference to the location or functions of parts, and are needlessly difficult to learn and retain. (The names of diseases?Pott's, Bright's, etc.?present similar difficulties.) Psychology is comparatively free from this evil, but a few instances, such as Purkinje phenomenon and organ of Corti, will come to mind. Osborn (3) following Gregory distinguishes between heritage and habitus, the former denoting the totality of inherited or "palaeotelic" characters, the latter the totality of recent adaptive or "caenotelic" characters. (We should not confuse the habitus with habits, i. e., individually acquired characters.) References 1. Dunlap, K. The Results of a Questionary on Psychological Terminology. Johns Hophins Univ. Circular, No. 285, 1916 (No. 5), pp. 55. 2. Fuller, W. The Necessity of Revising the Nomenclature of the Anatomy of the Brain. ]. of Amer. Med. Ass., 1916, 67, 328-330. 3. Osborn, H. F. Heritage and Habitus. Science, 1917, 45, 660-661. 4. Pillsbury, W. B. The American Association for the Advancement of Science:? The Function and Test of Definition and Method in Psychology. Science, 19I5. 41, 37I-389- 5. Tawney, G. A. What is Behavior? /. of Phil.,...