PsychologyH. Holt, 1892 - 478 páginas |
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... less capable we are of noticing any one detail . The law is obvious where the things differ in kind , How easily do we forget a bodily discomfort when conversation waxes hot ; how little do we notice the noises in the room so long as ...
... less capable we are of noticing any one detail . The law is obvious where the things differ in kind , How easily do we forget a bodily discomfort when conversation waxes hot ; how little do we notice the noises in the room so long as ...
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... , but they are much less obvious , so I will not notice them here . We can now pass to a very brief survey of the vari- ous senses in detail . CHAPTER III . SIGHT . The Eye's Structure is described SENSATION IN GENERAL . 27.
... , but they are much less obvious , so I will not notice them here . We can now pass to a very brief survey of the vari- ous senses in detail . CHAPTER III . SIGHT . The Eye's Structure is described SENSATION IN GENERAL . 27.
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... less towards its periphery , by means of which neither colors , shapes , nor number of impressions can be well discriminated . In the normal use of our two eyes , the eyeballs are ro- tated so as to cause the two images of any object ...
... less towards its periphery , by means of which neither colors , shapes , nor number of impressions can be well discriminated . In the normal use of our two eyes , the eyeballs are ro- tated so as to cause the two images of any object ...
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... them , as we say ) ; and its relaxation , by rendering the lens less refractive , adapts the eye for distant vision . Accommodation for the near is thus the more active change , since it involves contraction of 32 PSYCHOLOGY .
... them , as we say ) ; and its relaxation , by rendering the lens less refractive , adapts the eye for distant vision . Accommodation for the near is thus the more active change , since it involves contraction of 32 PSYCHOLOGY .
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... less widely disparate than in the other case , and the double images will appear to lie less widely apart . Careful experiments made by many observers according to the so - called haploscopic method confirm this law , and show that ...
... less widely disparate than in the other case , and the double images will appear to lie less widely apart . Careful experiments made by many observers according to the so - called haploscopic method confirm this law , and show that ...
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Página 143 - 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 146 - Could the young but realize how soon they will become mere walking bundles of habits, they would give more heed to their conduct while in the plastic state. We are spinning our own fates, good or evil, and never to be undone.
Página 140 - To quote my earlier book directly, the great thing 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 as carefully guard against the growing into ways that are likely to be disadvantageous.
Página 299 - 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 144 - Even the habit of excessive indulgence in music, for those who are neither performers themselves nor musically gifted enough to take it in a purely intellectual way, has 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...
Página 175 - 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 146 - 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.
Página 139 - There is a story, which is credible enough, though it may not be true, of a practical joker, who, seeing a discharged veteran carrying home his dinner, suddenly called out, ' Attention !' whereupon the man instantly brought his hands down, and lost his mutton and potatoes in the gutter. The drill had been thorough, and its effects had become embodied in the man's nervous structure.
Página 436 - If a bottle of brandy stood at one hand, and the pit of hell yawned at the other, and I were convinced that I would be pushed in as sure as I took one glass, I could not refrain.
Página 276 - James sees now the primordial « fact of our immediate experience » to be that of « the specious present », « the practically cognized present is no knife-edge », 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.