Review of Readings in Experimental Psychology

Abstract

Reviews the book, Readings in Experimental Psychology by Willard Lee Valentine (1930). These readings consist of 27 abstracts of 24 articles, four of these coming from parts of Clark L Hull's article, "Quantitative Aspects of the Evolution of Concepts." Four abstracts are on the general subject of reaction times and a fifth, "The Accuracy of Timing with a Stop Watch," is very closely related. There are two studies on hunger behavior, one on sensori-motor responses in infants and two on emotional behavior, one of these being Mandel Sherman's study of emotional responses in infants. There are two articles on delayed responses, one on sleep, one on the relative importance of accommodation and convergence in distance perception and one on local signature. Under the general head of learning are found studies on mirror drawing, drives in animal learning, comparison of human beings and rats in maze learning, relation between learning and amount to be learned, multiple-choice method in the study of primates and the studies by Hull mentioned above. In addition there is a study of the correlation between intelligence tests and scholastic success, and a 20-page article on sensory discrimination. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2025 APA, all rights reserved)