Educational psychology Author:Edward Lee Thorndike Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: Appropriation or acquisitiveness or the proprietary instinct any object which pleases attention, snatching any object which pleases attention, begging E... more »nvy Jealousy To form collections Constructiveness "whatever things are plastic to his hands he must" "remodel into shapes of his own" Habitation—"to make a sheltered nook, open on only one side" "when not altogether unenclosed" "he feels less exposed and more at home than when lying all abroad" "another boy who runs provokingly near" running after him "seeing another child pick up some object" trying to get it "someone trying to take an object away" trying to get away with it Love of festivities, ceremonies, and ordeals "concerted action as one of an organized crowd" excitement perceiving such a crowd "a tendency to join them and do what they are doing and an unwillingness to be the first to leave off and go home alone" Curiosity novelty in any movable feature of the environment being excited and irritated Sociability and shyness being alone discomfort meeting a stranger shyness Secretiveness ''unfamiliar human beings, especially those whom we respect" "the arrest of whatever we are saying or doing. .. .coupled often with the pretense that we were not saying or doing that thing, but possibly something different" love affairs to conceal them Qeanliness "excrementitious and putrid things, blood, pus, entrails and dis- eased tissues" repugnance Modesty, shame (?) Personal isolation Love between the sexes Coyness Parental love Indefiniteness In Descriptions Of Original Tendencies This list, and still more so James' full account, should suggest at once the question, "How can the description of a tendency in human natur...« less