Maybe I'm getting sloppy, but I thought it was pretty hilarious, Stephen Black, that you referred to the use of terms like pleasant and unpleasant as a "crime against nature" in your post. If I'm trying to get a student to connect with a new concept -- in the early stages when I'm just trying to get them into the right neighborhood, not to the exact address -- I think it's perfectly legitimate to use less-precise terms, even anthropomorphic ones. Once they get the gist of an idea, then you can work on fine-tuning, reminding them of the impossibility of knowing what a non-human critter is experiencing, and other nuances. Onward through the fog! What am I missing? ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Michael J. Renner, Ph.D. Interim Associate Vice President Office of Faculty Development, Scholarship & Research Professor of Psychology West Chester University West Chester, PA 19383 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Telephone: 610-436-3310 Fax: 610-436-2763 http://www.wcupa.edu/_academics/osr/ "The path of least resistance is always downhill." -----------------------------------------------------------------------
