Questions in general and educational psychology / by Guy Montrose Whipple.
- Guy Montrose Whipple
- Date:
- 1908
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: Questions in general and educational psychology / by Guy Montrose Whipple. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![399. Is impulsive action, technically understood, the kind of action referred to in such statements as: ‘‘I spoke impulsively ’’ ? 400. Show how the impulse often ‘degenerates’ to ideomotor (con- scious reflex) action, and afterward, still further to reflex movement. 401. Explain the statement: ‘‘ Volition has no sooner established a habit than it turns about and employs the habit as a tool for the con- struction of larger, more extensive habits.”” (An.—xx.) 402. How can you differentiate secondary from primary ideomotor action? (T. P.—xiii.) 403. Define volition and show carefully its general relation to the principle of motor expression. * 404, Show the controlling influence of attention in volition. * 405. Show that either sensational or ideational processes may set off voluntary movement. * 406. Whatis meant by the ‘motor cue’? By ‘resident’ and by ‘remote’ imagery in the guidance of movement? Could a person walk if afferent excitations from the legs were cut off ? * 407. What gives rise to the feeling of effort in voluntary action? * 408. Is there an ‘innervation sense’? Describe an experiment to illustrate your answer. * 409. Explain and illustrate: ‘‘ The whole motive, the sum of con- scious conditions [of action] is made up of an inducement and an incentive present in consciousness together.” (T. P.—ix.) What is the induce- ment and the incentive in instinctive action? 410. Examine several cases of volitional action and state the motive (inducement and incentive) which led you to action in each case. 411. Why do advertisers spend money in printing such apparently unconvincing commands and assertions as ‘‘ Drink P. B. ale,’’ or ‘‘ Get the habit; trade with Day and Hoyt,’’ or ‘‘Diamond tires outwear all others. ”’](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b31367124_0053.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
