Outlines of Psychology: With Special Reference to the Theory of Education

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Longsman, Green and Company, 1885 - Počet stran: 711
 

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Strana 422 - General observations drawn • from particulars are the jewels of knowledge, comprehending great store in a little room ; but they are therefore to be made with the greater care and caution, lest, if we take counterfeit for true, our loss and shame be the greater when our stock comes to a severe scrutiny.
Strana 205 - The baby new to earth and sky, What time his tender palm is prest Against the circle of the breast, Has never thought that 'this is I:' But as he grows he gathers much, And learns the use of 'I,' and 'me,' And finds 'I am not what I see, And other than the things I touch.
Strana 579 - ... constitutes the connecting link between knowing and feeling on the one side, and willing on the other. In desiring a thing, say an approaching holiday, we are in a state of active tension, as if striving to aid the realization of that which is only represented at the moment, and recognized as such. This innermost core of desire has been variously described as a movement of the mind (eg) by Aristotle, and more commonly as a striving towards the fruition or realization of the object. This element...
Strana 694 - I say, has convinced me that the sense of touch by itself is altogether incompetent to afford us the representation of extension and space, and is not even cognizant of local exteriority...
Strana 114 - The most direct are as follows : " In order that the intensity of a sensation may increase in arithmetical progression, the stimulus must increase in geometrical progression...
Strana 351 - Now, language is to the mind, precisely what the arch is to the tunnel. The power of thinking and the power of excavation are not dependent on the word in the one case, nor on the mason-work in the other ; but without these subsidiaries neither process could be carried on beyond its rudimentary commencement.
Strana 73 - The authority is subject to the superior authority of the Ego. I yield it, or I withhold it, as I please. I direct it in turn to several points. I concentrate it upon each point as long as my will can stand the effort." Sully says: "Attention may be roughly defined as the active self-direction of the mind to any object which presents itself at the moment.
Strana v - ... experts. It would be hard to find a more intelligent and candid psychologist, or one more generally known and respected among teachers, than James Sully. His position is by no means an, extreme or partisan one. While holding to the view "that psychology is distinctly marked off from the physical or natural sciences as the chief of the moral sciences, having to do with the phenomena of the inner world, and employing its own method or instrument, namely, introspection,
Strana 48 - By this term is meant a fixed tendency to think, feel, or act in a particular way under special circumstances. The formation of habits is a very important ingredient of what we mean by intellectual development ; but it is not all that is so meant. Habit refers rather to the fixing of mental operations in particular directions.
Strana 377 - The influence of others is an important factor in the growth of this fuller idea of self. More particularly its development would be promoted by the experience of moral discipline and the reception of blame or praise. It is when the child's attention is driven inwards, in an act of reflection on his own actions as springing from good or bad motives, that he wakes up to a fuller consciousness of self. The gradual substitution for the proper name of

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