Psychology: An Introductory Study of the Structure and Function of Human ConsciousnessH. Holt, 1904 - 402 من الصفحات |
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الصفحة 378 - I held it truth, with him who sings To one clear harp in divers tones, That men may rise on stepping stones Of their dead selves to higher things.
الصفحة 174 - They hear like ocean on a Western beach The surge and thunder of the Odyssey.
الصفحة 50 - ... if the reflexes and the automatic acts were wholly competent to steer the organism throughout its course, there is no reason to suppose that consciousness would ever put in an appearance."56 Others, like Dewey, argue that difficulties in " Principles, i., 1890, 142. James, although he favoured a functional as opposed to a structural psychology ("The Energies of Men,
الصفحة 165 - ... stand against change, some of them even now presenting usage of the middle nineteenth century. It is possible that this will not always be true. As Professor Sturtevant put it: In the past such efforts [of teachers] have usually been directed against a usage that was supposed to be an innovation, but there seems to be no reason in the nature of the case why the school should not some day be enlisted in an effort to improve the language. Linguistic Change, p. 177 A person interested in writing...
الصفحة 140 - The formation of the elements of the process of knowledge and the inauguration of the control of our movements in accordance with the mandates of experience — these are the two great functions of perception."2 If this quotation is taken literally, then "perceptions" must be regarded as entities which inaugurate and control our movements.
الصفحة 65 - ... is meant in the present chapter by attention, with illustration and comparison. When we look at a printed page there is always some portion of it, perhaps a word, which we see more clearly than the rest; and out beyond the margin of the page we are still conscious of objects which we see only in an imperfect way. The field of consciousness is apparently like this visual field. There is always a central point of which we are momentarily more vividly conscious than anything else. Fading gradually...
الصفحة 379 - The term will is simply a convenient appellation for the whole range of mental life viewed from the standpoint of its activity and control over movement.
الصفحة 173 - ... voice through mazes running, Untwisting all the chains that tie The hidden soul of harmony; That Orpheus...
الصفحة 254 - In the light of our present knowledge, it seems probable that the deaths reported from cholera in the year intervening between the epidemics were not cases of Asiatic cholera, but of sporadic cholera, or cholera nostras. The following details of the various epidemics are taken from the official reports of the time: Epidemic of 1838. The records for this year are...