Sunday, December 2, 2012
ACROSTIC, Puzzle by Emily Cox and Henry Rathvon
Edited by Will Shortz
This Sunday’s difficult acrostic draws a fragmented quotation from Psychology: A Story of a Search by W. Lambert Gardiner.
An easy introductory text with clear chapter outlines and new terms in boldface. Chapters on motivation, emotion beyond need reduction. nature and nurture, classical conditioning, instrumental conditioning, classical and instrumental conditioning, cognition, language, psychophysics, psychophysiology, beyond sensation, experiment, alternatives to experiment, data to fact, fact to theory, psychometrics, psychopathology, ontogeny, phylogeny, time, peripheral-central, physiology, sociology. ~ Amazon.com
The quotation: A CLASS … CONDITIONED THEIR … PROFESSOR A WEEK AFTER HE TOLD THEM ABOUT LEARNING WITHOUT AWARENESS. EVERY TIME HE MOVED TOWARD THE RIGHT … THEY PAID MORE ATTENTION …, UNTIL … THEY WERE ABLE TO CONDITION HIM RIGHT OUT THE DOOR.
The author’s name and the title of the work: W. LAMBERT GARDINER, PSYCHOLOGY
The defined words:
A. Counterfactual premise (hyph.), WHAT-IF
B. Narrow in scope; having strings attached, LIMITED
C. Sound of sternutation, AHCHOO
D. Release from fracking or flatulence, METHANE
E. Falstaff or Figaro, e.g., BARITONE
F. Puget Sound city with a Boeing plant, EVERETT
G. Drunk, in the Outback; punk, ROTTEN
H. Affecting the style of Mr. Toad, TWEEDY
I. Physical rate of change; inclination, GRADIENT
J. Put into motion, ACTUATE
K. Cause of some traffic delays, ROADWORK
L. Vacillate, waffle, DITHER
M. Lock, stock and barrel (2 wds.), IN TOTO
N. 1982-90 sitcom about an innkeeper, “NEWART”
O. Didactic keyboard piece, ETUDE
P. Memoirist with the alias “Joseph Anton”, RUSHDIE
Q. Jungian mask or façade, PERSONA
R. Midafternoon to midnight, in a factory (2 wds.), SWING SHIFT
S. World War I female naval recruits, by rank, YEOMEN
T. Common use for a wedge (2 wds.), CHIP SHOT
U. Case for a quick-draw artist, HOLSTER
V. Cut, left out, OMITTED
W. Frequent shop visitor?, LEMON
X. Blast beyond a tennis baseline, say, OVERHIT
Y. Discoverer of Io, Europa, Callisto and Ganymede, GALILEO
Z. Language heard in Nigeria, Togo and Benin, YORUBA
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