ABSTRACT
The evidence within the field of orientation learning itself, therefore, seems to point to the ordinary teleological view. But just as the ordinary type of maze-experiment—with training and test on the same path—was only one among many possible such experiments, so the maze environment is only one among many possible environments, and in many crucial respects not the most common. The nature of the animal’s improvement in the ‘Umweg’ problems which require the use of some indirect means or path, also points to the view that the effect of training and practice is to allow him more readily to ‘see’ the solution. Thus the truth-functional relationship is totally inappropriate to action terms and movement terms. The language of ‘stimulus-response’ is therefore quite misleading when one considers the correlations that psychologists actually work with. Ordinary behaviour sequences are always running across it.
