Psychology: An Introductory Study of the Structure and Function of Human Consciousness |
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Page 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.
Page 185 - Memory proper, or secondary memory as it might be styled, is the knowledge of a former state of mind after it has already once dropped from consciousness; or rather it is the knowledge of an event, or fact, of which meantime we have not been thinking, with the additional consciousness that we have thought or experienced it before.
Page 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...
Page 59 - But presently it has selected from out the masses of motor responses created by the sensory stimulations to which the sense organs are sensitive, those particular ones which issue in effective muscular control over the environment, and straightway we are confronted with habits. As soon as these habits are firmly established, consciousness betakes itself elsewhere to points where habitual accommodatory movements are as yet wanting and needed.
Page 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...
Page 6 - ... life phenomena. We shall discover, as we go on, abundant reason for the belief that conscious processes and certain nervous processes are indissolubly bound up with one another in the human being. But at this point, without attempting to justify the assertion, we may lay it down as a basal postulate that the real human organism is a psychophysical organism, and that the mental portion of it is not to be completely or correctly apprehended without reference to the physiological portion. The psychophysical...
Page 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.
Page 173 - ... voice through mazes running, Untwisting all the chains that tie The hidden soul of harmony; That Orpheus...
Page 288 - McDougall, op. cit., chap. iii. own definition that instincts "represent structurally preformed pathways in the nervous system, and stand functionally for effective inherited co-ordinations made in response to environmental demands.
Page 345 - No idea can dominate our movements which does not catch and hold our attention. Indeed, volition as a strictly mental affair is neither more nor less than a matter of attention. When we can keep our attention firmly fixed upon a line of conduct, to the exclusion of all competitors, our decision is already made.