PsychologyHolt, 1892 - 478 páginas |
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... present Psychol- ogy is on the materialistic tack , and ought in the interests of ultimate success to be allowed full headway even by those who are certain she will never fetch the port without putting down the helm once more . The only ...
... present Psychol- ogy is on the materialistic tack , and ought in the interests of ultimate success to be allowed full headway even by those who are certain she will never fetch the port without putting down the helm once more . The only ...
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... present . Objects merely thought of , recollected , or imagined , on the contrary , are relatively faint and devoid of this pungency , or tang , this quality of real presence which the objects of sensation possess . Now the cortical ...
... present . Objects merely thought of , recollected , or imagined , on the contrary , are relatively faint and devoid of this pungency , or tang , this quality of real presence which the objects of sensation possess . Now the cortical ...
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... present chapter . The Intensity of Sensations . - A light may be so weak as not sensibly to dispel the darkness , a sound so low as not to be heard , a contact so faint that we fail to notice it . In other words , a certain finite ...
... present chapter . The Intensity of Sensations . - A light may be so weak as not sensibly to dispel the darkness , a sound so low as not to be heard , a contact so faint that we fail to notice it . In other words , a certain finite ...
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... presents itself as an indivisible . unit ; and it is quite impossible to read any clear meaning into the notion that they are masses of units combined . * Beiträge zur exp . Psychol . , Heft 3 , p . 4 . There is no inconsistency between ...
... presents itself as an indivisible . unit ; and it is quite impossible to read any clear meaning into the notion that they are masses of units combined . * Beiträge zur exp . Psychol . , Heft 3 , p . 4 . There is no inconsistency between ...
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... present sensations , and the two may modify each other just as coexisting sensational processes do . Other senses than sight show phenomena of contrast , but they are much less obvious , so I will not notice them here . We can now pass ...
... present sensations , and the two may modify each other just as coexisting sensational processes do . Other senses than sight show phenomena of contrast , but they are much less obvious , so I will not notice them here . We can now pass ...
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action activity animal aphasia appear aroused association attention 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 neural never object occipital lobes optic organ outer pain pass perceive perception person physiological present psychic psychology reaction reason relations 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 visual volition Weber's law whilst whole words
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Página 148 - 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 - The more of the details of our daily life we can hand over to the effortless custody of automatism, the more our higher powers of mind will be set free for their own proper work.
Página 144 - ... and his lonely farm through all the months of snow; it protects us from invasion by the natives of the desert and the frozen zone. It dooms us all to fight out the battle of life upon the lines of our nurture or our early choice, and to make the best of a pursuit that disagrees, because there is no other for which we are fitted, and it is too late to begin again. It keeps different social strata from mixing.
Página 288 - 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 177 - 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 361 - Common sense says, we lose our fortune, are sorry and weep; we meet a bear, are frightened and run; we are insulted by a rival, are angry and strike.
Página 265 - In short, 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.
Página 409 - I must get up, this is ignominious', etc.; but still the warm couch feels too delicious, the cold outside too cruel. And resolution faints away and postpones itself again and again just as it seemed on the verge of bursting the resistance and passing over into the decisive act. Now how do we ever get up under such circumstances? If I may generalize from my own experience, we more often than not get up without any struggle or decision at all. We suddenly find that we have got up. A fortunate lapse...
Página 147 - ... over the other. It is necessary, above all things, in such a situation, never to lose a battle. Every gain on the wrong side undoes the effect of many conquests on the right. The essential precaution, therefore, is so to regulate the two opposing powers that the one may have a series of uninterrupted successes, until repetition has fortified it to such a degree as to enable it to cope with the opposition, under any circumstances. This is the theoretically best career of mental progress.
Página 177 - ... as the merchants say, of self at all. With no attempt there can be no failure; with no failure, no humiliation. So our self-feeling in this world depends entirely on what we back ourselves to be and do.