PsychologyH. Holt, 1892 - 478 páginas |
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... observed it in the case of weights . I will quote Wundt's account of the law and of the facts on which it is based . 6 " Every one knows that in the stilly night we hear things unnoticed in the noise of day . The gentle ticking of the ...
... observed it in the case of weights . I will quote Wundt's account of the law and of the facts on which it is based . 6 " Every one knows that in the stilly night we hear things unnoticed in the noise of day . The gentle ticking of the ...
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... observations if we start with an arbitrary strength of stimulus , notice what sensation it gives us , and then see how ... observed in the muscular feelings , in the feelings of heat , in those of light , and in those of sound ; and he ...
... observations if we start with an arbitrary strength of stimulus , notice what sensation it gives us , and then see how ... observed in the muscular feelings , in the feelings of heat , in those of light , and in those of sound ; and he ...
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... observed that a thaler laid on the skin of the forehead feels heavier when cold than when warm . Urbantschitsch has found that all our sense - organs influ- ence each other's sensations . The hue of patches of color so distant as not to ...
... observed that a thaler laid on the skin of the forehead feels heavier when cold than when warm . Urbantschitsch has found that all our sense - organs influ- ence each other's sensations . The hue of patches of color so distant as not to ...
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... observe the clear ring around the lens , and radiating outside of it the marks made by the ciliary white membrane ( the sclerotic ) , which encloses a 28 PSYCHOLOGY . CHAPTER III SIGHT The eye, 28 Accommodation, 32 Convergence, binocular.
... observe the clear ring around the lens , and radiating outside of it the marks made by the ciliary white membrane ( the sclerotic ) , which encloses a 28 PSYCHOLOGY . CHAPTER III SIGHT The eye, 28 Accommodation, 32 Convergence, binocular.
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... observe . In fact , it is almost impossible not to turn the eyes , ' the moment any peripherally lying object does catch our attention , the turning of the eyes being only 6 another name for such rotation of the eyeballs as will. SIGHT .
... observe . In fact , it is almost impossible not to turn the eyes , ' the moment any peripherally lying object does catch our attention , the turning of the eyes being only 6 another name for such rotation of the eyeballs as will. SIGHT .
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action activity animal aphasia appear association attention auditory awaken basilar membrane become bodily body brain called centres cerebellum cerebral chapter character ciliary muscle cochlea color condition consciousness corpora quadrigemina corpus callosum currents discharge discrimination effect effort emotion excited exist experience fact fear feeling felt fibres fornix give habit hand hear hemispheres idea imagination immediately impression impulse instinct intellectual interest matter means medulla oblongata membrane memory ment mental mind motion motor movement muscles muscular natural nerve nervous neural never object occipital lobes optic organ outer pain pass perceive perception person physiological present psychic psychology reaction reason reflex result retina scala tympani seems semicircular canals sensation sense sensible sensory simple skin sort sound specious present stimulus supposed tactile temporal lobe thalami things third ventricle thought tion touch visual volition Weber's law whilst whole words
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Página 143 - Seize the very first possible opportunity to act on every resolution you make, and on every emotional prompting you may experience in the direction of the habits you aspire to gain. It is not in the moment of their forming, but in the moment of their producing motor effects, that resolves and aspirations communicate the new "set
Página 146 - Could the young but realize how soon they will become mere walking bundles of habits, they would give more heed to their conduct while in the plastic state. We are spinning our own fates, good or evil, and never to be undone.
Página 140 - To quote my earlier book directly, the great thing in all education is to make our nervous system our ally instead of our enemy. It is to fund and capitalize our acquisitions, and live at ease upon the interest of the fund. For this we must make automatic and habitual, as early as possible, as many useful actions as we can, and as carefully guard against the growing into ways that are likely to be disadvantageous.
Página 299 - If any man has the faculty of framing in his mind such an idea of a triangle as is here described, it is in vain to pretend to dispute him out of it, nor would I go about it. All I desire is, that the reader would fully and certainly inform himself whether he has such an idea or no.
Página 144 - Even the habit of excessive indulgence in music, for those who are neither performers themselves nor musically gifted enough to take it in a purely intellectual way, has probably a relaxing effect upon the character. One becomes filled with emotions which habitually pass without prompting to any deed, and so the inertly sentimental condition is kept up. The remedy would be, never to suffer one's self to have an emotion at a concert without expressing it afterward in some active way. Let the expression...
Página 175 - But as the individuals who carry the images fall naturally into classes, we may practically say that he has as many different social selves as there are distinct groups of persons about whose opinion he cares.
Página 146 - Well! he may not count it, and a kind Heaven may not count it; but it is being counted none the less. Down among his nerve cells and fibers the molecules are counting it, registering and storing it up to be used against him when the next temptation comes. Nothing we ever do is, in strict scientific literalness, wiped out.
Página 139 - There is a story, which is credible enough, though it may not be true, of a practical joker, who, seeing a discharged veteran carrying home his dinner, suddenly called out, ' Attention !' whereupon the man instantly brought his hands down, and lost his mutton and potatoes in the gutter. The drill had been thorough, and its effects had become embodied in the man's nervous structure.
Página 436 - If a bottle of brandy stood at one hand, and the pit of hell yawned at the other, and I were convinced that I would be pushed in as sure as I took one glass, I could not refrain.
Página 276 - James sees now the primordial « fact of our immediate experience » to be that of « the specious present », « the practically cognized present is no knife-edge », but a saddle-back, with a certain breadth of its own on which we sit perched, and from which we look in two directions into time.