PsychologyHolt, 1892 - 478 Seiten |
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... keeping our attention as long as possible upon our entire conscious states as they are con- cretely given to us , than by the post - mortem study of their comminuted ' elements . ' This last is the study of artificial abstractions , not ...
... keeping our attention as long as possible upon our entire conscious states as they are con- cretely given to us , than by the post - mortem study of their comminuted ' elements . ' This last is the study of artificial abstractions , not ...
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... keep our attention , an object must change , 226. Genius and attention , 227. Attention's physiological conditions , 228. The sense - organ must be adapted , 229. The idea of the object must be aroused , 232 Pedagogic remarks , 236 ...
... keep our attention , an object must change , 226. Genius and attention , 227. Attention's physiological conditions , 228. The sense - organ must be adapted , 229. The idea of the object must be aroused , 232 Pedagogic remarks , 236 ...
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... keep the lens rather flat . But the lens is highly elastic ; and it springs into the more convex form which is natural to it whenever the ciliary muscle , by contracting , causes the ligament to relax its pressure . The contraction of ...
... keep the lens rather flat . But the lens is highly elastic ; and it springs into the more convex form which is natural to it whenever the ciliary muscle , by contracting , causes the ligament to relax its pressure . The contraction of ...
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... keeping quiet for five or ten minutes , until the circulation has returned to its normal rate , would attain the same end without danger . " The acuteness of the temperature - sense is greatest at temperatures within a few degrees of 30 ...
... keeping quiet for five or ten minutes , until the circulation has returned to its normal rate , would attain the same end without danger . " The acuteness of the temperature - sense is greatest at temperatures within a few degrees of 30 ...
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... keep it in the path which to the consciousness seemed best . Now on the average what seems best to con- sciousness is really best for the creature . It is a well- known fact that pleasures are generally associated with beneficial ...
... keep it in the path which to the consciousness seemed best . Now on the average what seems best to con- sciousness is really best for the creature . It is a well- known fact that pleasures are generally associated with beneficial ...
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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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Seite 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
Seite 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.
Seite 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.
Seite 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.
Seite 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.
Seite 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.
Seite 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.
Seite 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...
Seite 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.
Seite 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.