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 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 perceive perception person phenomena Physiol possible present psychic psychology reaction reaction-time reason recall redintegration reflex relations remember result sciousness seems sensations sense sensibility sensorial simple sort soul sound specious present spinal cord spiritualist stimulus stream succession suppose theory things thought tion uncon unconscious Weber's law whilst whole words writing Wundt
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Página 336 - we may have to imagine that simplicity and identity. The comparison of the theatre must not mislead us. They are the successive perceptions only, that constitute the mind; nor have we the most distant notion of the place where these scenes are represented, nor of the material of which it is composed.
Página 132 - Abandoning all disguise, the confession that I feel bound to make before you is that I prolong the vision backward across the boundary of the experimental evidence, and discern in that matter which we, in our ignorance and notwithstanding our professed reverence for its Creator, have hitherto covered with
Página 277 - A man's Social Self is the recognition which he gets from his mates. We are not only gregarious animals, liking to be in sight of our fellows, but we have an innate propensity to get ourselves noticed, and noticed favorably, by our kind. No more fiendish punishment could be devised, were such a thing physically possible,
Página 106 - cup, the time of rising and going to bed every day, and the beginning of every bit of work, are subjects of express volitional deliberation. Full half the time of such a man goes to the deciding, or regretting, of matters which ought to be so ingrained in him as practically not to exist for his
Página 336 - inhere in something simple or individual, or did the mind perceive some real connection among them, there would be no difficulty in the case. For my part, I must plead the privilege of a sceptic and confess that this difficulty is too hard for my understanding. I pretend not, however, to pronounce it
Página 335 - anyone, upon serious and unprejudiced reflection, thinks he has a different notion of himself, I must confess I can reason no longer with him. All I can allow him is, that he may be in the right as well as I, and that we
Página 223 - it presents itself in the first instance. It is nothing jointed ; it flows. A ' river' or a ' stream ' are the metaphors by which it is most naturally described. In talking of it hereafter, let us call it the stream of thought, of consciousness, or of
Página 336 - soul which remains unalterably the same, perhaps for one moment The mind is a kind of theatre, where several perceptions successively make their appearance; pass, repass, glide away and mingle in an infinite variety of postures and situations.
Página 589 - but a saddle-back, with a certain breadth of its own on which we sit perched, and from which we look in two directions into time. The unit of composition of our perception of time is a duration, with a bow and a stern, as it were—a rearward- and a forward-looking end.
Página 115 - of men ; and. therefore, that all states of consciousness in us, as in them, are immediately caused by molecular changes of the brain-substance. It seems to me that in men, as in brutes, there is no proof that any state of consciousness is the cause of change in the motion of the matter of the organism.