The Explorers

A friend of mine conducted a survey on about 60 school kids to find if any particular factors controlled their choice of fiction books they read, and he recorded very queer observations. Mind you, these readers ranged from casual to very experienced readers; some had the history of reading only what the syllabus had to offer, while others ranged from Rowling to Martin to Tolkien to Archer and a lot others. The casual readers, had queer factors that controlled their choice of fiction. Length of story- The most common factor the casual readers looked for was the length of the story. Any story more than 6000-7000 words was sure to be straight-forwardly rejected by them. Some preferred to get a short summary of the long story rather read it from start to end. Author's fame- 'Don't judge a book by its cover', they say; but in the sample space, almost all judged a story by fame of its author. This effect went to the extent that genuine likeness for specific genres was ...

    You may have read about the famous Pavlov's Experiment on conditioned reflexes ( Read about Pavlov's Experiment ). In it, Pavlov, by conditioning and practicing, induced a response in a dog on the sound of an ordinary bell and the dog began to salivate. Now an interesting question arises - what shall happen if the amplitude or the pitch of the bell is changed; which means a new and different quality bell is used in the same experiment. Will the dog still salivate? Will the differences in responses to stimuli to stimulus occur here.     The dog's brain is stimulated to the sound of that very bell. The brain is pretty good in distinguishing between different sounds of varying amplitude or pitch. So if the brain is trained artificially to induce a particular response to a stimulus, then it must not induce the same response if the stimulus is changed and there must be differences in responses to stimuli. Take for example a class in a school, the class rises t...