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Page 124
... curiosity motive would apparently serve , as other drives do , to determine the figure - ground relationships of perceptual patterns . Curiosity would throw some aspects of the stimulus into relief . The curi- ous mind constantly sees ...
... curiosity motive would apparently serve , as other drives do , to determine the figure - ground relationships of perceptual patterns . Curiosity would throw some aspects of the stimulus into relief . The curi- ous mind constantly sees ...
Page 179
... curiosity ( " A Theory of Human Curiosity , " Brit . J. Psychol . , Vol . 45 , 1954 , pp . 180- 191 ) . This restatement of a well known traditional distinction may also be useful , in some degree , in differentiating art and science ...
... curiosity ( " A Theory of Human Curiosity , " Brit . J. Psychol . , Vol . 45 , 1954 , pp . 180- 191 ) . This restatement of a well known traditional distinction may also be useful , in some degree , in differentiating art and science ...
Page 214
... curiosity motives possess , and the degree to which these are nourished during the transitional period to the centralized world system toward which we are moving . What is said here regarding curiosity would also appear to apply to ...
... curiosity motives possess , and the degree to which these are nourished during the transitional period to the centralized world system toward which we are moving . What is said here regarding curiosity would also appear to apply to ...
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Our Twentiethcentury Vantage Point | 3 |
The Invention of Culture | 47 |
How We Come to Want What We Want | 60 |
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