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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... 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 But of to his end by swimming straight upwards . But if a ...
... 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 But of to his end by swimming straight upwards . But if a ...
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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 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.