EXERCISES
1. Outline the chapter, in the form of a list of laws and sub-laws.
2. Review the instances of learning cited in Chapters XIII-XV, and examine whether they are covered and sufficiently accounted for by the general laws given in the present chapter.
3. Draw diagrams, like those given in this chapter, for the simpler cases, at least, that you have considered in question 2.
4. Show that response by analogy is important in the development of language. Consider metaphor, for example, and slang, and the using of an old word in a new sense (as in the case of 'rail-road').
REFERENCES
William James devoted much thought to the problem of the mechanism of learning, habit, association, etc., and his conclusions are set forth in several passages in his Principles of Psychology, 1890, Vol. I, pp. 104-112, 554-594, and Vol. II, pp. 578-592.
Another serious consideration of the matter is given by William McDougall in his Physiological Psychology, 1905, Chapters VII and VIII.
See also Thorndike's Educational Psychology, Briefer Course, 1914, Chapter VI.
On the whole subject of association, see Howard C. Warren, A History of the Association Psychology, 1921.