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Salient. An Organ of Student Opinion at Victoria University, Wellington N.Z. Vol. 22, No. 10. September 14, 1959

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which has crept into the lecturing, and this is what it is: the lecturer first mentions some results connected with a concrete study such as physiology or statistics, and then, with the dexterity of a card sharp, shifts to the psychological idea he wishes to present, hoping that the precision which the student associates with the other study will be transferred to that of his own.

Examples: the introduction of chemical terms such as "acetylcholine" in a discussion on anger; or, in some notes on perceptual learning, we have a preliminary screed on electronic analogue computers.