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May, Mark Arthur was born on August 12, 1891 in Jonesboro, Tennessee, United States. Son of Samuel and Mary Etta (Kyker) May.
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1917 Excerpt: ...we inhibit others which might interfere with the result.... The result is a more or less massive organic feeling that attention is going on.... Any object, if immediately exciting, causes a reflex accommodation of the sense organ, and this has two results--first, the object's increase in clearness; and second, the feeling of activity in question."6 This "massive organic feeling" is, I suppose, due to the kinaesthetic sensations aroused by the movements of adjustments of the sense organ in question. He goes on to say, however, "But in intellectual attention, as we have already seen (p. 300), similar feelings of activity occur." The passage referred to on page 300 is as follows: "In the first place, the acts of attending, assenting, negating, making an effort, are felt as movements of something in the head. In many cases it is possible to describe these movements quite exactly. In attending to either an idea or a sensation belonging to a particular sense-sphere, the movement is the adjustment of the sense organ, felt as it occurs. I cannot think in visual terms, for example, without feeling a fluctuating play of pressures, convergences, divergences, and accommodations in my eyeballs. The direction in which the object is conceived to lie determines the character of these movements, the feeling of which becomes, for my consciousness, identified with the manner in which I make myself ready to receive the visible thing.... "When I try to remember or reflect, the movements in question, instead of being directed towards the periphery, seem to come from the periphery inwards and feel like a sort of withdrawal from the outer world. As far as I can detect, these feelings are due to an actual rolling outwards and upwards of the eyebal...
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May, Mark Arthur was born on August 12, 1891 in Jonesboro, Tennessee, United States. Son of Samuel and Mary Etta (Kyker) May.
AB, Maryville (Tennessee) College, 1911; Bachelor of Philosophy, University of Chicago, 1912; student, Union Theological Seminary, New York City, 1913-1915; Master of Arts, Columbia, 1915; Doctor of Philosophy, Columbia, 1917; Master of Arts, Yale, 1927; Doctor of Laws (honorary), Syracuse University, 1949; Doctor of Humane Letters, Maryville College, 1961.
Instructor military psychology, United States Army, Camp Greenleaf, Georgia, 1917-1918; statistician, Surgeon General' General’ s Office, Washington, 1918-1919; assistant professor psychology, Syracuse University, 1919-1920; associate professor, Syracuse University, 1920-1921; professor, Syracuse University, 1921-1924; research associate, Syracuse University, 1924-1927; professor educational psychology, director Institute Human Rels., Yale, 1927-1960; professor emeritus of psychology, Yale, from 1960. Science consultant War Department, 1944-1945. Chairman United States Advisory Commision on Information,1953-1962, Chairman, Board Of Directors Teaching Films Custodians Inc.
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(Volume 2 in these early studies at Columbia University.)
(the essential factor is deception)
Fellow American Association for the Advancement of Science. Member American Psychological Association, Sigma Xi.
Married Ruby Patton, September 12, 1917. Children: Samuel Cassamere, Martha Norwood.