Laws and Hypotheses for Behavior 281 



ability to learn - - in the amount of influence of a given de- 

 gree of satisfyingness or annoyingness upon the connection 

 that produced it. 



The peculiarly human features of intellect and character, 

 responses to elements and symbols, are the results of: 

 first, a receiving system that is easily stimulated by the 

 external world bit by bit (as by focalized vision and touch 

 with the moving hand) as well as in totals composed of vari- 

 ous aggregates of these bits ; second, of an action-system of 

 great versatility (as in facial expression, articulation, and 

 the hands' movements) ; and third, of a connection-system 

 that includes the connections roughly denoted by babbling, 

 manipulation, curiosity, and satisfaction at activity, bodily 

 or mental, for its own sake ; that is capable of working in 

 great detail, singling out elements of situations and parts 

 of responses ; and that allows satisfying and annoying states 

 of affairs to exert great influence on their antecedent con- 

 nections. Because he learns fast and learns much, in the 

 animal way, man seems to learn by intuitions of his own. 



