Journal of Abnormal Psychology and Social Psychology, Volume 19American Psychological Association, 1925 - Psychology |
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ABNORMAL PSYCHOLOGY activity Allport analysis attitude average behavior cent chapter character child Company complex conception conflict conscious process correlation crystal gazing cultural dementia praecox desire discussion dream E. P. Dutton emotional experience experimental explain fact factors feeling FLOYD H function gregarious habit hallucinations human nature hypnosis impulses individual instinct institutions intelligence Intelligence quotient interest interpretation Journal Klan Knight Dunlap McDougall measurements mechanism ment mental method mind modern Morton Prince nervous normal objective organism pages annually patient Peer Gynt personality phenomena physical present problems Professor psychic psychoanalysis radical raters ratings reactions regard relation religious represented response Review scale scientific scores sexual shows situation social psychology sociology statements stimuli Subscription suggestion tendency theory thought tion traits uncon unconscious unconscious mind University vidual William McDougall writers York
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Page 192 - All habits are demands for : certain kinds of activity; and they constitute the self. In any intelligible sense of the word will, they are will. They form our effective desires and they furnish us with our working capacities.
Page 15 - Impulses are the pivots upon which the reorganization of activities turn, they are agencies of deviation, for giving new directions to old habits and changing their quality.
Page 18 - To increase the creative phase and the humane quality of these activities is an affair of modifying the social conditions which stimulate, select, intensify, weaken and coordinate native activities. The first step in dealing with it is to increase our detailed scientific knowledge. We need to know exactly the selective and directive force of each social situation ; exactly how each tendency is promoted and retarded.
Page 362 - My whole nature goes out so to some persons, and they thrill and stir me so that I have an emission while sitting by them with no thought of sex, only the gladness of soul found its way out thus, and a glow of health suffused the whole body. There was no spasmodic conclusion, but a pleasing gentle sensation as the few drops of semen passed.
Page 14 - The book does not purport to be a treatment of social psychology. But it seriously sets forth a belief that an understanding of habit and of different types of habit is the key to social psychology, while the operation of impulse and intelligence gives the key to individualized mental activity.
Page 364 - Henceforward I shall know to what I must attribute the bliss — almost the beatitude — I so often have experienced after traveling for four or five hours in a train.
Page 14 - For they mean nothing more or less than that habits formed in process of exercising biological aptitudes are the sole agents of observation, recollection, foresight and judgment: a mind or consciousness or soul in general which performs these operations is a myth.
Page 15 - Habits once formed perpetuate themselves, by acting unremittingly upon the native stock of activities. They stimulate, inhibit, intensify, weaken, select, concentrate and organize the latter into their own likeness. They create out of the formless void of impulses a world made in their own image. Man is a creature of habit, not of reason nor yet of instinct.
Page 16 - With the dawn of the idea of progressive betterment and an interest in new uses of impulses, there has grown up some consciousness of the extent to which a future new society of changed purposes and desires may be created by a deliberate human treatment of the impulses of youth.
Page 325 - SIXTH INTERNATIONAL CONGRESS OF PHILOSOPHY The American Philosophical Association, through the courtesy of Professor H. Wildon Carr, honorary secretary of the Fifth International Congress, appointed for London in 1915 but interrupted by the war, has been authorized by the Permanent International Committee, as constituted at the Congress of Bologna, 1911, and by the English Organization Committee of 1915, to convene the next International Congress in the United States. The American Association has...