Psychological Bulletin, Volume 12

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American Psychological Association, 1915
Issues for 1904-38 contain the literature section of the Psychological reviews publications.

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Página 400 - It is often desirable to include in the diagram the numerical data or formulae represented. 15. If numerical data are not included in the diagram, it is desirable to give the data in tabular form accompanying the diagram.
Página 398 - ... line or other line used as a basis of comparison. 7. When the scale of a diagram refers to dates, and the period represented is not a complete unit, it is better not to emphasize the first and last ordinates, since such a diagram does not represent the beginning and end of time.
Página 401 - ... 16. All lettering and all figures on a diagram should be placed so as to be easily read from the base as the bottom, or from the right-hand edge of the diagram as the bottom. Fig. 16. 17. The title of a diagram should be made as clear and complete as possible. Sub-titles or descriptions should be added if necessary to insure clearness.
Página 195 - The Psychology of Learning CHAPTER I INTRODUCTION The intellect, character and skill possessed by any man is the product of certain original tendencies and the training which they have received. His eventual nature is the development of his original nature in the environment which it has had. Human nature in general is the result of the original nature of man, the laws of learning, and the forces of nature amongst which man lives and learns.
Página 397 - Where possible represent quantities by linear magnitude as areas or volumes are more likely to be misinterpreted. 3. For a curve the vertical scale, whenever practicable, should be so selected that the zero line will appear in the diagram.
Página 105 - The emotional reactions above described may each be interpreted, therefore, as making the organism more efficient in the struggle which fear or rage or pain may involve. And that organism which, with the aid of adrenal secretion, best mobilizes its sugar, lessens its muscular fatigue, sends its blood to the vitally important organs, and provides against serious hemorrhage, will stand the best chance of surviving in the struggle for existence.
Página 105 - CH Fiske and I examined the urine of twenty-five members of the Harvard University football squad immediately after the final and most exciting contest of the season of 1913, and found sugar in twelve cases. Five of these positive cases were among substitutes not called upon to enter the game. The only excited spectator of the Harvard victory whose urine was examined also had a marked glycosuria, which on the following day had disappeared.
Página 399 - The curve lines of a diagram should be sharply distinguished from the ruling. 11. In curves representing a series of observations, it is advisable, whenever possible, to indicate clearly on the diagram all the points representing the separate observations.
Página 396 - JOINT COMMITTEE ON STANDARDS FOR GRAPHIC PRESENTATION Preliminary Report Published for the Purpose of Inviting Suggestions for the Benefit of the Committee As a result of invitations extended by The American Society of Mechanical Engineers, a number of associations of national scope have appointed representatives on a Joint Committee on Standards for Graphic Presentation. Below are the names of the members of the committee and of the associations which have cooperated in its formation. WILLARD C....
Página 105 - ... energy supply for other parts) ; the shifting of blood from the abdominal organs, whose activities are deferable, to the organs immediately essential to muscular exertion (the lungs, the heart, the central nervous system) ; the increased vigor of contraction of the heart; the quick abolition of the effects of muscular fatigue ; the mobilizing of energy-giving sugar in the circulation — every one of these visceral changes is directly serviceable in making the organism more effective in the violent...

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