Word: stimuli
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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...group of student in a course of concentration the instructor must not assume the attitude of the specialist. He is teaching for mastery; but he is not endeavoring to develop mathematical prodigies nor biological experts nor classical scholars. He is utilizing the educative values inherent in his subject as stimuli to the increase of intellectual power. He is not making technical details an end in themselves, but is guiding the pupils in the discovery and re-discovery of principles which recur in different aspects and in other connections. Finally, as opportunity presents itself, he directs attention to points of contact...
George Washington Crile, famed chief of the Cleveland Clinic, told the meeting that memory was an electrochemical process. Sense stimuli, he said, send electrical impulses through the nervous system. Reaching the brain these currents cause metal ions to be deposited in the pathway in some definite arrangement. Later, when the event which caused the initial stimulation is repeated, similar currents are dispatched which reactivate the original pathways, produce memory...