New Britain Herald Newspaper, January 31, 1923, Page 16

GALLS PSYCHOLOGY SCIENTIFIC MYSTERY Princpal White Discusses Sub- joct Belore Woman's Club eT— | | “The great majerity of the people | are believers, They will beli most anything they shouldn't believe in and wen't believe in many things | they should. That is the history of mankind”, said Marous White prine pal of the Normal sohoel in speaking on, "Facts and Fancies of Psychology 8t the annual gu night of the Wom- | ter ehureh chap i ve in al an's club at the C el last evening He told of the doetors and of med feine in olden times, of the ancient beliefs sueh as searlet eloth for many other | cures employed by the physicians ..zj that time The first thing a doetor | weQid do to a person would be to| bleed him™, said Mr. White adding, | “And they haven't changed so much | the present diseases and many so-called | of so many | cures was that the| times did not | or the use medical men of thos know the causes of the diseases and s0, could not treat them Many of them were honest their intentions. And then came Pasteur in recent years Pasteur and Medicine Pasteur placed modern medicine upon its feet”, said the speaker, "Pas- ture attributed discase to minute or- small as to be visible | only with the aid of a microscope. He was ridiculed for a long time, He would make discoverics and announce them, but the people would not take them He made tests with animals and eded to such an cx- tent that he could prophesy the re. | sults of the experiments cven before | they were performed | 5 the reason for the success of | Pas f the world's greatest human a was that he had traced nd the effects and had arriv a definite conclusion, and at the pres time physicians are trying to put medicine on a scien- tific basis.” The gullibility of and how they will t vertisements and -called cures, just as they were attracted by the patent medicine advertisements which guar- anteed to cure every disease known to man were described. Mr. White stated that there is just as much bene- fit to be derived from many simple and well known things as there is from some expensive article. The people want the name and anything else will not do. “Now, if there is such a wide field for duping the people in the experi- mental field of medicine, what possi- bilities Jie in the little known and new science of psychology?" the speaker. What Is Consciousness? “To understand consciousness one must think of what is impossible in unconsciousness. In consciousness we can love, hate, talk, speak and do many other things that make up the conscious self. All these phenomena are associated with changes in the nervous system. None of these would happen unless there was nerve ac- tion,” said the speaker. “Psychologists say that human be- ings come into the world as manu- | factured products, results of inherit- | ed systems of action dating back to prehistoric times. We have instincts which cause us to act in certain ways. For exampie | he told of an experiment with pup-| pies that showed th2y have a natural | instinet to swim, an inherited in- stinct. A baby has no such instinct. “The reason why we know so much more about medicine than we do about psychology is that experiment- ers in medicine have a le field to work from,” he said. “They have Leen able to experiment with animals. Psychologists have no such field.” Young children can not he secured to experiment on and so these experi- ments must be carried on under arti- ficial conditions; the results may not be conclusive, he said. The Emotions Regarding the emotions, little is known. It is shown that the state of mind has an effect upon things con- nected with the body and the emo-| tions play a big part in the hody wel- | fare. Mr., White said that there is a great deal still to be learned about the body. ganisms & He referred to anger, as an exam- ple, when the natural tendency of the Lody is to act. The muscles become taut and the body prepares for de- fense, an instinct dating back to pre. historic times when a man had to pro- teet himself. 1In this casc the blood can hetter serve the muscles than it can the function of digestion and di-| gestion stops. It is practically certain that this is the case, said Mr. White Many emotions are detrimental at the present time as modern conditions @o not warrant the use of them. “All things are mysterious, but when we have traced the chain of causes and effects they become less mysterious,” said Mr. White. The Nerves | In speaking of the nerves, \ir.| White said that each nerve does its own work of carrying messages to the brain. After this takes place it is not| known what happens in the brain. All psychologists can do is to guess Nerve currents, after reaching the brain, shoot out in all directions, is| the belief. Thus, when one word uttered by one person, the person ad- | dressed immediately thinks of several | other things connected with it. The | thoughts bhecome associated The fact that a man has a good memory merely shows that he has an | educated brain. The currents are well | trained to follow a definite pathway | about the brain. The mind becomes organized by training. | Strange Cases | He brought to mind many strange| cases of peculiar minds which cannot be accounted for because cnough is| not known about the mind. Colburn, | the mathematical marvel; Blind Tom, an idiot regarding everything but| piano playing; Pillsbury, the chess| marvel, and Mozart, who could write | music when extremely young. | In speaking of communication with | the dead, the speaker said that he would not deny that there was a cer- tain form of communication. How- ever, this cannot be subjected to tests. It is easy to fool people and just as easy to fool scientists. There &ve many fakers in both spiritualism NEW BRITAIN DAILY HERALD, nd psyohology. However, there is 8| soience of pmychology. There are many things claimed for it, though that it wthing 1o do with Psychology Lectures Will Begin at Y, W, Tonight A series of eight lectures on applied has absolutely | psychology will begin tonight at the 1Y. W, © A. 8t T:45 e'clock and will be given by Miss Jean Moore of Hart- ford the possible subjects for the leeture are What is Mental Health, and Bome Helps in Preserving i The Place of Psychology in Vo. cational ehoice and a discussion of the 1 value of intelligence test" any psychological explana- unrest and the ap. rd tor autherity™ “A psychelogical faetors in. | tualism, suggestion and on, hypnotism and tele- nature a Is there tion for tod MANUAL TRAINING EXRIBIT, A manual training exhibit, free to | the publie, is being given by the stu. lents at the Central Junior High schooel in the manual training reom in | he basement of the new building, The exhibit was open yesterday and | today and will continue until 7 o'clock tonight Greets The Stork e As required by English constitution- " al custom, Home Secretary Bridge- | man will be present at the birth of | Princess Mary's child when that ev. | ent takes place in London. 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