Word: stimulus
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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...passengers, and one feels a yearning for the familiar comforts of home. But after a while the routine becomes second nature, and certain attractions begin to reveal themselves: the esprit de corps of participating in a common adventure, a feeling of liberation from home-town pressures and personalities, the stimulus of new people with disparate backgrounds and ideas...
...similar interview with an old, possibly senile man. When the subject does not respond is it because the device feeding him words is faulty, or because his hearing is bad, or because words like "tenderness" simply don't evoke a response from him? When he responds without repeating the stimulus-word, can be sure he heard the same work we did? These questions do not center, as they might under the "ideology of real life," on the problem of whether we should believe that what we are seeing actually occurred. Instead the central question is how to interpret the material...
...sleep. During his first two weeks of life, such grins occur as many as nine times per 1 ½ hours of sleep. By comparing the brain-wave patterns of normal, severely retarded, and premature babies, Emde found that sleepy smiles at this age are caused by an internal stimulus-the growth of the brain stem, a primitive portion of the brain not directly involved in sight or thought...
...Goodwin, nonetheless, alcohol is not just a harmless stimulus to creativity. He points to the obvious fact that a man may use it self-destructively, as did Fitzgerald. In such cases, as Baudelaire said about Edgar Allan Poe, alcohol becomes a weapon "to kill something inside himself, a worm that would...
These experiences are accessible to many ordinary people, note Masters and Houston, but they do require an ability to relax one's everyday grip on externals and allow deep internal processes of the mind to surface. Recently TIME Religion Researcher Clare Mead visited the foundation. Without any stimulus except the direction of Dr. Houston, she underwent a half-hour-long "inner odyssey." Her account...