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

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Longmans, Green & Company, 1885 - Počet stran: 711
 

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Strana 207 - 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 674 - ... both in different individuals, and in the same individual at different times. And...
Strana 696 - ... observation, 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 116 - These results may be expressed as follows : In order that the intensity of a sensation may increase in arithmetical progression, the stimulus must increase in a geometrical progression.1 This is known as Weber's or Fechner's Law.
Strana 75 - 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 353 - 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 75 - The field of Consciousness however is wider than that of Attention. Consciousness admits of many degrees of distinctness. I may be very vaguely or indistinctly conscious of some bodily sensation, of some haunting recollection, and so on. To attend is to intensify consciousness by concentrating or narrowing it on some definite and restricted area. It is to force the mind or consciousness in a particular direction so as to make the objects as distinct as possible.
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 207 - 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 379 - 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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