The will-temperament and its testing / by June E. Downey.

  • June Downey
Date:
1923
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Credit: The will-temperament and its testing / by June E. Downey. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    qualities of the outside world to creation of a great orchestral symphony or system of thought, and at every step on the march enter surprising individual differences. Psychology has introduced us to many an amazing possibility in variation in sense organs. It has, for example, acquainted us not only with the color-blind individual but also with the man color¬ blind in one eye alone, one of Nature’s curious ex¬ periments, who, wherever discovered, should be appropriated by the state as a bit of laboratory ap¬ paratus! It has sought out the man of nocturnal vision and suggested that he serve as night guard in trench or city. It has listed the vagaries of the pitch-deaf person, and of the anosmic woman, so insensitive to odor that every pot on the stove might boil dry without that symphony of odors attracting a single glance of appreciation. In the world of imagery, psychology has discovered the eye-minded individual, whose thoughts resemble flickering movies; the ear-minded man, whose ideas echo largely in inner speech; and the motor-minded man, whose inner thinking goes on in terms of vocal movements or delicate gymnastics, or subtle gestures by hand or eye-muscle which convey an immense amount of meaning by a method of mental short¬ hand. Individual differences in powers of reason¬ ing are too obvious to need comment, since they range from going indoors when it rains to invention of a phonograph or a Liberty motor. Even to list the discoveries of psychology in the way of intel¬ lectual differences would require a small volume. Individual differences in sensory equipment Differences in imagery and in reason
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