PsychologyH. Holt, 1892 - 478 páginas |
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... reason to suppose that the order of vibrations in the outer world is anything like as inter- rupted as the order of our sensations . Between the quick- est audible air - waves ( 40,000 vibrations a second at the outside ) and the ...
... reason to suppose that the order of vibrations in the outer world is anything like as inter- rupted as the order of our sensations . Between the quick- est audible air - waves ( 40,000 vibrations a second at the outside ) and the ...
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... reason of this differ- ence is that the man has a nervous system , whilst the tree has none ; and the function of the nervous system is to bring each part into harmonious coöperation with every other . The afferent nerves , when excited ...
... reason of this differ- ence is that the man has a nervous system , whilst the tree has none ; and the function of the nervous system is to bring each part into harmonious coöperation with every other . The afferent nerves , when excited ...
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... reason the direct line is not used . Thus , a tired wayfarer on a hot day throws himself on the damp earth beneath a maple - tree . The sensations of deli- M FIG . 40 . H S cious rest and coolness pouring themselves through the direct ...
... reason the direct line is not used . Thus , a tired wayfarer on a hot day throws himself on the damp earth beneath a maple - tree . The sensations of deli- M FIG . 40 . H S cious rest and coolness pouring themselves through the direct ...
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... reason to doubt that the feelings may react so as to further or to dampen the processes to which they are due . I shall therefore not hesitate in the course of this book to use the language of common - sense . I shall talk as if ...
... reason to doubt that the feelings may react so as to further or to dampen the processes to which they are due . I shall therefore not hesitate in the course of this book to use the language of common - sense . I shall talk as if ...
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... reason to plot out an analogous correspondence between the upper and lower portions of the retina and certain parts of the visual cortex . If both occipital lobes were destroyed , we should have double hemiopia , or , in other words ...
... reason to plot out an analogous correspondence between the upper and lower portions of the retina and certain parts of the visual cortex . If both occipital lobes were destroyed , we should have double hemiopia , or , in other words ...
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activity animal aphasia appear association attention auditory awaken basilar membrane become bodily body brain called centres cerebellum cerebral chapter character ciliary muscle cochlea color consciousness corpora quadrigemina corpus callosum corpus striatum currents discharge discrimination effect effort emotion excited exist experience fact feeling felt fibres fornix give habit hand hear hemispheres ideas images impressions impulse instinct intellectual intensity interest light look matter medulla oblongata membrane memory ment mental mind motion motor movement muscles muscular natural nerve nervous never object occipital lobes optic organ outer pain pass perceived perception person physiological present processes psychology reaction reason reflex result retina scala tympani sciousness seems semicircular canals sensation sense sensibility sensory simple skin sort sound stimulus supposed surface tactile temporal lobe thalami things third ventricle thought tion touch ventricle vibrations visual 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.