PsychologyH. Holt, 1905 - 478 páginas |
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... less permanent features of its structure , modify- ing its action throughout all future time . waves . Each afferent nerve comes from a determinate part CHAPTER II SENSATION IN GENERAL Incoming nerve-currents, 9 Terminal organs, 10 'Spe-
... less permanent features of its structure , modify- ing its action throughout all future time . waves . Each afferent nerve comes from a determinate part CHAPTER II SENSATION IN GENERAL Incoming nerve-currents, 9 Terminal organs, 10 'Spe-
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... less definitely so only from the fact that we can less easily increase the force of the stimuli here . On the other hand , all sensations , however unpleasant when more intense , are rather agree- able than otherwise in their very ...
... less definitely so only from the fact that we can less easily increase the force of the stimuli here . On the other hand , all sensations , however unpleasant when more intense , are rather agree- able than otherwise in their very ...
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... less at each step , until at last , the ' acme ' being reached , the sensation - line grows flat . The exact law of retardation is called Weber's law , from the fact that he first observed it in the case of weights . I will quote ...
... less at each step , until at last , the ' acme ' being reached , the sensation - line grows flat . The exact law of retardation is called Weber's law , from the fact that he first observed it in the case of weights . I will quote ...
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... less intensely , or not felt at all . Of what sort now is the alteration in the circumstances upon which this alteration in the feeling may depend ? On considering the matter closely we see that it is every- where of one and the same ...
... less intensely , or not felt at all . Of what sort now is the alteration in the circumstances upon which this alteration in the feeling may depend ? On considering the matter closely we see that it is every- where of one and the same ...
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... less than 24,576 separate judg ments . 66 Sensations are not compounds . The fundamental objec- tion to Fechner's whole attempt seems to be this , that although the outer causes of our sensations may have many parts , every ...
... less than 24,576 separate judg ments . 66 Sensations are not compounds . The fundamental objec- tion to Fechner's whole attempt seems to be this , that although the outer causes of our sensations may have many parts , every ...
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action activity animal aphasia appear aroused association attention auditory awaken basilar membrane become bodily body brain called centres cerebellum cerebral chapter character ciliary muscle cochlea color condition consciousness corpora quadrigemina corpus callosum currents discharge discrimination effect effort emotion excited exist experience fact fear feeling felt fibres fornix give habit hand hear hemispheres idea imagination immediately impression impulse instinct intellectual interest matter means medulla oblongata membrane memory ment mental mind motion motor movement muscles muscular natural nerve nervous neural never object occipital lobes optic organ outer pain pass perceive perception person physiological present psychic psychology reaction reason reflex result retina scala tympani sciousness seems semicircular canals sensation sense sensible sensory simple skin sort sound specious present stimulus suppose tactile temporal lobe thalami things third ventricle thought tion touch visual volition Weber's law whilst whole words
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Página 375 - My theory, on the contrary, is that the bodily changes follow directly the perception of the exciting fact, and that our feeling of the same changes as they occur is the emotion.
Página 147 - 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 150 - The drunken Rip Van Winkle, in Jefferson's play, excuses himself for every fresh dereliction by saying, "I won't count this time!" 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 405 - ... interest in each successive subject before its ebb has come, so that knowledge may be got and a habit of skill acquired — a headway ot interest, in short, secured, on which afterward the individual may float. There is a happy moment for fixing skill in drawing, for making boys collectors in natural history, and presently dissectors and botanists; then for initiating them into the harmonies of mechanics and the wonders of physical and chemical law.
Página 303 - 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 179 - 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 166 - 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 147 - No matter how full a reservoir of maxims one may possess, and no matter how good one's sentiments may be, if one has not taken advantage of every concrete opportunity to act, one's character may remain entirely unaffected for the better. With mere good intentions, hell is proverbially paved. And this is an obvious consequence of the principles we have laid down. A "character...
Página 224 - There is no such thing as voluntary attention sustained for more than a few seconds at a time. What is called sustained voluntary attention is a repetition of successive efforts which bring back the topic to the mind.
Página 187 - So our self-feeling in this world depends entirely on what we back ourselves to be and do. It is determined by the ratio of our actualities to our supposed potentialities...