The Principles of Psychology, Svazek 1Cosimo, Inc., 1. 1. 2007 - Počet stran: 708 The Principles of Psychology is a two-volume introduction to the study of the human mind. Based on his classroom lessons and first published in 1890, James has gathered together what he feels to be the most interesting and most accessible information for the beginning student. Psychology, according to James, deals with thoughts and feelings as its facts and does not attempt to determine where such things come from. This would be the realm of metaphysics, and he is careful to avoid crossing over from science into philosophy. This first volume contains discussions of the brain, methods for analyzing behavior, thought, consciousness, attention, association, time, and memory. Anyone wanting a thorough introduction to psychology will find this work useful and engaging. American psychologist and philosopher WILLIAM JAMES (1842-1910), brother of novelist Henry James, was a groundbreaking researcher at Harvard University and one of the most popular thinkers of the 19th century. Among his many works are Human Immortality (1898) and The Varieties of Religious Experience: A Study in Human Nature (1902). |
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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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THE MINDSTUFF THEORY | 145 |
CHAPTER VII | 183 |
CHAPTER VIII | 199 |
CHAPTER IX | 224 |
CHAPTER X | 291 |
ATTENTION | 402 |
CHAPTER XII | 459 |
CHAPTER XIII | 483 |
CHAPTER XIV | 550 |
CHAPTER XV | 605 |
CHAPTER XVI | 643 |
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Strana 485 - ... for wit lying most in the assemblage of ideas, and putting those together with quickness and variety, wherein can be found any resemblance or congruity, thereby to make up pleasant pictures and agreeable visions in the fancy; judgment, on the contrary, lies quite on the other side, in separating carefully, one from another, ideas, wherein can be found the least difference, thereby to avoid being misled by similitude, and by affinity to take one thing for another.
Strana 128 - As we become permanent drunkards by so many separate drinks, so we become saints in the moral, and authorities and experts in the practical and scientific spheres, by so many separate acts and hours of work. Let no youth have any anxiety about the upshot of his education, whatever the line of it may be. If he keep faithfully busy each hour of the workingday, he may safely leave the final result to itself.
Strana 148 - ... the passage from the current to the needle, if not demonstrable, is thinkable, and that we entertain no doubt as to the final mechanical solution of the problem. But the passage from the physics of the brain to the corresponding facts of consciousness is unthinkable. Granted that a definite thought, and a definite molecular action in the brain occur simultaneously ; we do not possess the intellectual organ, nor apparently any rudiment of the organ, which would enable us to pass, by a process...
Strana 122 - Habit is thus the enormous fly-wheel of society, its most precious conservative agent. It alone is what keeps us all within the bounds of ordinance, and saves the children of fortune from the envious uprisings of the poor.
Strana 128 - 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.
Strana 149 - I cross the boundary of the experimental evidence, and discern In that matter which we, in our ignorance of its latent powers, and notwithstanding our professed reverence for its creator, have hitherto covered with opprobrium, the promise and potency of all terrestrial life.
Strana 485 - ... pleasant pictures and agreeable visions in the fancy ; judgment, on the contrary, lies quite on the other side, in separating carefully one from another ideas wherein can be found the least difference, thereby to avoid being misled by similitude and by affinity to take one thing for another. This is a way of proceeding quite contrary to metaphor and allusion, wherein for the most part lies that entertainment and pleasantry of wit which strikes so lively on the fancy, and therefore so acceptable...
Strana 126 - No matter how full a reservoir of maxims one may possess, and no matter how good one's sentiments may be, if one have not taken advantage of every concrete opportunity to act, one's character may remain entirely unaffected for the better. With mere good intentions, hell is proverbially paved. And this is an obvious consequence of the principles we have laid down. A "character...