The Principles of Psychology, Volumen1H. Holt, 1890 |
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... excitement resuscitate things long since forgotten ? If we content ourselves with merely affirming that the faculty of memory is so peculiarly con- stituted by nature as to exhibit just these oddities , we seem little the better for ...
... excitement resuscitate things long since forgotten ? If we content ourselves with merely affirming that the faculty of memory is so peculiarly con- stituted by nature as to exhibit just these oddities , we seem little the better for ...
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... excited under normal circumstances by the same annoying position . They seem determined , consequently , not merely by the antecedent irritant , but by the final end , though the irritant of course is what makes the end desired ...
... excited under normal circumstances by the same annoying position . They seem determined , consequently , not merely by the antecedent irritant , but by the final end , though the irritant of course is what makes the end desired ...
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... excited by some physical irritant , be this as gross in its mode of oper- ation as a chopping axe or as subtle as the waves of light , conveys the excitement to the nervous centres . The com- motion set up in the centres does not stop ...
... excited by some physical irritant , be this as gross in its mode of oper- ation as a chopping axe or as subtle as the waves of light , conveys the excitement to the nervous centres . The com- motion set up in the centres does not stop ...
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... exciting this arrangement as a whole . Similarly , if an intact frog wishes to jump over a stone which he sees , all he ... excited thereto ; only the inner promptings seem deficient , and when left to himself he spends most of his time ...
... exciting this arrangement as a whole . Similarly , if an intact frog wishes to jump over a stone which he sees , all he ... excited thereto ; only the inner promptings seem deficient , and when left to himself he spends most of his time ...
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... excitement propagated to a lower centre tends to spread upwards and arouse an idea . 4 ) Every idea tends ultimately either to produce a movement or to check one which otherwise would be pro- duced . Suppose now ( these assumptions ...
... excitement propagated to a lower centre tends to spread upwards and arouse an idea . 4 ) Every idea tends ultimately either to produce a movement or to check one which otherwise would be pro- duced . Suppose now ( these assumptions ...
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abstract activity aphasia appear asso association associationist attention awaken become bodily brain brain-process called cerebral chapter conceived conception condition connection consciousness cortex discrimination distinct effect elements excited exist experience F. H. Bradley fact feeling felt frog function give habit hand hemispheres ideas identity impression interest interval J. S. Mill James Mill knowledge LELAND STANFORD matter means medulla oblongata memory mental metaphysical mind motor movements nature nervous never notion object observations occipital lobes once organs pass past paths perceived perception person phenomena Physiol possible present psychic psychology reaction reaction-time reason recall redintegration reflex relation remember result sciousness seems sensations sense sensibility sensorial simple sort soul sound specious present spinal cord spiritualistic stimulus stream succession suppose theory things thought tion Weber's law whilst whole words writing Wundt
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Página 351 - For my part, when I enter most intimately into what I call myself, I always stumble on some particular perception or other, of heat or cold, light or shade, love or hatred, pain or pleasure. I never can catch myself at any time without a perception, and never can observe anything but the perception.
Página 124 - 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 122 - The more of the details of our daily life we can hand over to the effortless custody of automatism, the more our higher powers of mind will be set free for their own proper work.
Página 127 - 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.
Página 127 - As we become permanent drunkards by so many separate drinks, so we become saints in the moral, and authorities and experts in the practical and scientific spheres, by so many separate acts and hours of work. Let no youth have any anxiety about the upshot of his education, whatever the line of it may be. If he keep faithfully busy each hour of the workingday, he may safely leave the final result to itself.
Página 121 - Habit is thus the enormous fly-wheel of society, its most precious conservative agent. It alone is what keeps us all within the bounds of ordinance, and saves the children of fortune from the envious uprisings of the poor.
Página 484 - Wit lying most in the assemblage of Ideas, and putting those together with quickness and variety, wherein can be found any resemblance or congruity, thereby to make up pleasant pictures, and agreeable visions in the Fancy...
Página 122 - The great thing, then, 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 guard against the growing into ways that are likely to be disadvantageous to us, as one should guard against the plague.
Página 126 - ... 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 be the least thing in the world — speaking genially to one's aunt, or giving up one's seat in a horse-car, if nothing more heroic offers — but let it not...
Página 566 - Custom settles habits of thinking in the understanding, as well as of determining in the will, and of motions in the body ; all which seems to be but trains of motion in the animal spirits, which once set a-going, continue in the same steps they have been used to ; which, by often treading, are worn into a smooth path, and the motion in it becomes easy, and as it were natural.