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... reflex discharge ; and its anatomical substratum must be a path in the system . The most complex habits , as we shall presently see more fully , are , from the same point of view , nothing but con- catenated discharges in the nerve ...
... reflex discharge ; and its anatomical substratum must be a path in the system . The most complex habits , as we shall presently see more fully , are , from the same point of view , nothing but con- catenated discharges in the nerve ...
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... once have been voluntary , the voluntary action must before that , at least once , have been impulsive or reflex . It is this very first occurrence of all that we consider in the text . verse it the first time ? 1 In answering this HABIT ...
... once have been voluntary , the voluntary action must before that , at least once , have been impulsive or reflex . It is this very first occurrence of all that we consider in the text . verse it the first time ? 1 In answering this HABIT ...
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... reflex arc . All this is vague to the last degree , and amounts to little more than saying that a new path may be formed by the sort of chances that in nervous material are likely to occur . But , vague as it is , it is really the last ...
... reflex arc . All this is vague to the last degree , and amounts to little more than saying that a new path may be formed by the sort of chances that in nervous material are likely to occur . But , vague as it is , it is really the last ...
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... reflex arcs therein , but even how nervous tissue may actually be born by the passage of new waves of isometric transformation through an originally indif- ferent mass . I cannot help thinking that Mr. Spencer's data , under a great ...
... reflex arcs therein , but even how nervous tissue may actually be born by the passage of new waves of isometric transformation through an originally indif- ferent mass . I cannot help thinking that Mr. Spencer's data , under a great ...
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... reflex movements — the con- scious effort of the will soon produces ex- haustion . A spinal cord without . . . mem- ory would simply be an idiotic spinal cord . It is impossible for an individual to realize how much he owes to its ...
... reflex movements — the con- scious effort of the will soon produces ex- haustion . A spinal cord without . . . mem- ory would simply be an idiotic spinal cord . It is impossible for an individual to realize how much he owes to its ...
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1'Der menschliche 50 cents accus acquired animals attention balls become body brain bundles of habits called centres know cerebrum chain conscious COUNTWAY LIBRARY discharge ditions easily the movement Edcl emotions expression feeling functional activity Green grows guiding sensations habit of excessive habitual action Henry Holt idea ideational centres impulse to keep infinitesimally small amount knitting learned Life's Ideals Longmans maxim mechanical Mental Physiology ments mode modified motor effects move muscles muscular contraction nerve-current nerve-substance nerves nervous system nervous tissue never nutrition occur once one's organ outset path perception performed period of growth philosophy of habit physi plasticity play possible practical Principles of Psychology prompted reflex arc reproduction result says secondarily automatic sort Spencer's spinal cord structure success tendency thing thought tion train train of thought traversed tual unwonted line violin volition wave of rearrangement whole WILLIAM JAMES York
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Seite 54 - The great thing, then, in all education, is to make our nervous system our ally instead of our enemy. It is to fund and capitalize our acquisitions, and live at ease upon the interest of the fund. For this we must make automatic and habitual, as early as possible, as many useful actions as we can, and guard against the growing into ways that are likely to be disadvantageous to us, as we should guard against the plague.
Seite 64 - One becomes filled with emotions which habitually pass without prompting to any deed, and so the inertly sentimental condition is kept up. The remedy would be, never to suffer one's self to have an emotion at a concert, without expressing it afterward in some active way. Let the expression be the least thing in the world — speaking genially to one's aunt, or giving up one's seat in a horse-car, if nothing more heroic offers — but let it not fail to take place.
Seite 68 - 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.
Seite 51 - 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. It alone prevents the hardest and most repulsive walks of life from being deserted by those brought up to tread therein. It...
Seite 52 - You see the little lines of cleavage running through the character, the tricks of thought, the prejudices, the ways of the 'shop...
Seite 61 - No matter how full a reservoir of maxims one may possess, and no matter how good one's sentiments may be, if one has 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...
Seite 55 - Habits" there are some admirable practical remarks laid down. Two great maxims emerge from his treatment. The first is that in the acquisition of a new habit, or the leaving off of an old one, we must take care to launch ourselves with as strong and decided an initiative as possible. Accumulate all the possible circumstances which shall reinforce the right motives; put yourself assiduously in conditions that encourage the new way; make engagements incompatible with the old; take a public pledge,...
Seite 26 - Dr. Carpenter's phrase, that our nervous system grows to the modes in which it has been exercised expresses the philosophy of habit in a nutshell.
Seite 18 - ... and fix the impressed modification, rather than to counteract it by renewing the original constitution of the tissue that has been impressed. Thus, we notice after exercising our muscles or our brain in a new way, that we can do so no longer at that time; but after a day or two of rest, when we resume the discipline, our increase in skill not seldom surprises us. I have often noticed this in learning a tune; and it has led a German author to say that we learn to swim during the winter and to...
Seite 67 - I won't count this time!' 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...