A theoretical basis of human behavior / by Albert Paul Weiss.

  • Weiss, Albert Paul, 1879-1931.
Date:
1925
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    panied the learning of the original overt reaction. Since the effector pattern of the auxiliary reactions is usually not localized, the implicit reaction when described by the individual is usually described in terms of the original receptor patterns which were at the time clearly discriminated. When experimental conditions are created by which a response is fre¬ quently repeated under controlled stimulating condi¬ tions, it is possible through the use of supplementary stimuli such as auditory instructions to attend to this or that phase of the reactions, and to learn to localize or enumerate some of the auxiliary effector processes. While the auxiliary effectors are functioning, they stimulate adjacent receptors, but ordinarily the sen- sori-motor processes from these adjacent receptors are distributed to other equally obscure effectors. However, in the presence of a relatively strong ver¬ bal stimulus of the type report your Imagery or re¬ port your mental states some of the subjects’s dis¬ criminative reactions are shifted from the receptors that are stimulated by the experimental stimulus to the kinesthetic receptors that are stimulated by the effector processes of the subject’s own response. The auxiliary stimuli (instructions) and the experimental conditions are so selected that the discrimination of the obscure receptor patterns in the subject’s own re¬ sponse to the experimental stimulus, are made as favorable as possible. After sufficient repetition and \