An Outline of Psychology |
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active attention æsthetic association of ideas associative supplementing auditory basilar membrane beat bodily body catabolism centrally aroused chronoscope clangs cognition colour complex connection conscious process consciousness cutaneous definite distance duration emotion ence endolymph excitation experimental extent fact feeling frontal lobes hand Hence idea of movement impression impulsive action indifferent intensity internal ear interval introspection judgment large number localisation major third memory memory-idea ment mental constitution mental experience mental processes method mind move mucous membrane muscles muscular nature nervous system noise object or process organic sensations pain particular peripheral pleasantness or unpleasantness present pressure psychology reactor recognitive mood reflex reflex action reproductive retina sation sensation and affection sensation of sight sensation qualities sense departments sense-organ sensory sentiment simple simultaneous association single skin smell sound stimulus successive association tactual tendency tion tone traction engine verbal association verbal idea visual idea Weber's law whole word
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Page 3 - ... and perceive all other things, takes no notice of itself; and it requires art and pains to set it at a distance, and make it its own object. But whatever be the difficulties that lie in the way of this inquiry...
Page 2 - The Understanding, like the Eye, whilst it makes us see, and perceive all other Things, takes no notice of it self: And it requires Art and Pains to set it at a distance, and make it its own Object.
Page 148 - ... when the greater number are the result of an excitation within the brain cortex, *'. <?., are centrally aroused. If I have a table before me and my eyes open I am said to perceive the table ; if I close my eyes and think of what I saw, to have an idea of a table. But we have seen that the sensations aroused centrally do not differ as psychological processes from those aroused peripherally.
Page 344 - A mere sensation without a subject is nowhere to be met with as a fact. It is impossible to speak of a bare movement without thinking of the mass whose movement it is ; and it is just as impossible to conceive a sensation existing without the accompanying idea of that which has it, or, rather, of that which feels it; for this also is included in the given fact of experience, that the relation of the feeling subject to its feeling, whatever its other characteristics may be, is in any case something...
Page 198 - A verbal association (or, as he calls it, a ' verbal idea') in the sense of such a complex, according to Professor Titchener, " consists of an auditory complex, a mixture of clang and noise (word heard), a strain complex due to the adjustment of larynx and mouth necessary for the emission of a particular sound (word spoken), a visual complex, a written or printed form (word seen), and the strain complex due to the adjustment of hand and fingers necessary for the production of this form (word written)."1...
Page 2 - As if increase of appetite had grown By what it fed on; and yet, within a month, Let me not think on't: Frailty, thy name is woman!
Page 99 - We cannot attend to an affection at all. If we attempt to do so, the pleasantness or unpleasantness at once eludes us and disappears, and we find ourselves attending to some obtrusive sensation or idea which we had no desire to observe.
Page 345 - Everything we supposed ourselves to know of matter as an obvious and independent existence, has long since been dissolved in the conviction that matter itself, together with the space, by filling which it seemed most convincingly to prove its peculiar nature, is nothing but an appearance for our perception...