The Principles of Psychology, Volumen1Macmillan, 1890 - 704 páginas One of the greatest classics of modern Western literature and science and the source of the ripest thoughts of America's most important philosopher. |
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... sort of homunculus . Yet just such homunculi are for the most part the phrenological organs . As Lange says : " We have a parliament of little men together , each one of whom , as happens also in a real parliament , possesses but a ...
... sort of homunculus . Yet just such homunculi are for the most part the phrenological organs . As Lange says : " We have a parliament of little men together , each one of whom , as happens also in a real parliament , possesses but a ...
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... sort of relative inertia when the two sides of the body are compared ; and this itself becomes hardly notice- able after a number of weeks have elapsed . Prof. Goltz has described a dog whose entire left hemisphere was de- stroyed , and ...
... sort of relative inertia when the two sides of the body are compared ; and this itself becomes hardly notice- able after a number of weeks have elapsed . Prof. Goltz has described a dog whose entire left hemisphere was de- stroyed , and ...
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... sort of alimentary aphasia . * In presence of such discord as that between Munk and his opponents one must carefully note how differently sig- nificant is loss , from preservation , of a function after an opera- tion on the brain . The ...
... sort of alimentary aphasia . * In presence of such discord as that between Munk and his opponents one must carefully note how differently sig- nificant is loss , from preservation , of a function after an opera- tion on the brain . The ...
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... sort of crude indiscriminating sight of objects to return in a few weeks . The question whether a dog is blind or not is harder to solve than would at first appear ; for simply blinded dogs , in places to which they are accustomed ...
... sort of crude indiscriminating sight of objects to return in a few weeks . The question whether a dog is blind or not is harder to solve than would at first appear ; for simply blinded dogs , in places to which they are accustomed ...
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... sort occurs . When this is once clearly grasped there remains little ground for keeping up that old controversy about the motor zone , as to whether it is in reality motor or sensitive . The whole cortex , inasmuch as currents run ...
... sort occurs . When this is once clearly grasped there remains little ground for keeping up that old controversy about the motor zone , as to whether it is in reality motor or sensitive . The whole cortex , inasmuch as currents run ...
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abstract activity aphasia appear asso association associationist attention awaken become bodily brain brain-process called cerebral chapter conceived conception 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 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 reflex action 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 uncon unconscious Weber's law whilst whole words Wundt
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Página 289 - In its widest possible sense, however, a man's Self is the sum total of all that he CAN call his, not only his body and his psychic powers, but his clothes and his house, his wife and children, his ancestors and friends, his reputation and works, his lands and horses, and yacht and bank-account.
Página 119 - 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. It alone prevents the hardest and most repulsive walks of life from being deserted by those brought up to tread therein.
Página 120 - 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 we should guard against the plague.
Página 480 - For, 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 545 - And everybody praised the Duke Who this great fight did win." " But what good came of it at last ? " Quoth little Peterkin. " Why, that I cannot tell," said he,
Página 253 - Every definite image in the mind is steeped and dyed in the free water that flows round it. With it goes the sense of its relations, near and remote, the dying echo of whence it came to us, the dawning sense of whither it is to lead.
Página 349 - THERE are some philosophers who imagine we are every moment intimately conscious of what we call our self; that we feel its existence and its continuance in existence; and are certain, beyond the evidence of a demonstration, both of its perfect identity and simplicity.
Página 307 - ... and a lady-killer, as well as a philosopher; a philanthropist, statesman, warrior, and African explorer, as well as a ' tone-poet ' and saint. But the thing is simply impossible. The millionaire's work would run counter to the saint's; the...
Página 146 - I cross the boundary of the experimental evidence, and discern In that matter which we, in our ignorance of its latent powers, and notwithstanding our professed reverence for its creator, have hitherto covered with opprobrium, the promise and potency of all terrestrial life.
Página 125 - 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.