The Principles of Psychology, Volumen1H. Holt, 1890 |
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... Suppose a living frog in the position in which we placed our bubbles of air , namely , at the bottom of a jar of water . The want of breath will soon make him also long to rejoin the mother - atmosphere , and he will take the shortest ...
... Suppose a living frog in the position in which we placed our bubbles of air , namely , at the bottom of a jar of water . The want of breath will soon make him also long to rejoin the mother - atmosphere , and he will take the shortest ...
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... suppose the clock - work whose structure fatally determines it to a certain rate of speed , noticing that this speed is too slow or too fast and vainly trying to correct it . Its conscience , if it have any , should be as good as that ...
... suppose the clock - work whose structure fatally determines it to a certain rate of speed , noticing that this speed is too slow or too fast and vainly trying to correct it . Its conscience , if it have any , should be as good as that ...
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... suppose no such machinery directly co - ordinative of muscular contractions to exist . We may rather assume , when the mandate for a wiping - movement is sent forth by the hemispheres , that a current goes straight to the 18 PSYCHOLOGY .
... suppose no such machinery directly co - ordinative of muscular contractions to exist . We may rather assume , when the mandate for a wiping - movement is sent forth by the hemispheres , that a current goes straight to the 18 PSYCHOLOGY .
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... suppose it to be a reflex performance of the lower centres . The animal will be con- demned fatally and irresistibly to snap at it whenever presented , no matter what the circumstances may be ; he can no more disobey this prompting than ...
... suppose it to be a reflex performance of the lower centres . The animal will be con- demned fatally and irresistibly to snap at it whenever presented , no matter what the circumstances may be ; he can no more disobey this prompting than ...
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... Suppose now ( these assumptions being granted ) that we have a baby before us who sees a candle - flame for the first * I hope that the reader will take no umbrage at my so mixing the physical and mental , and talking of reflex acts and ...
... Suppose now ( these assumptions being granted ) that we have a baby before us who sees a candle - flame for the first * I hope that the reader will take no umbrage at my so mixing the physical and mental , and talking of reflex acts and ...
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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.