Princeton Contributions to Psychology, Volumes 1-2Howard Crosby Warren The University Press, 1896 - Psychology |
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accommodation actual adaptations affirmation Anfange answer attention Aufmerksamkeit Aufsetzen Autosuggestion CARL STUMPF congenital consciousness counting creatures denial determination deutlich die Haut die Schwelle die Versuchsperson difference direction Einübung element Empfindung environment error Erwartung evolution experiments fact factor function genetic Haut Hautstellen heredity Herrn HUGO MÜNSTERBERG ideas imaginative processes individual influence instinct intelligence intuition JAMES SULLY JOSEPH JASTROW judgment knowledge Linie Lloyd Morgan MARK BALDWIN means ment mental method mind motor reaction movement natural selection objective ontogenetic ontogeny Organic Selection perception philosophy Princeton Princeton University principle Professor progress prospective reference psychology Punkte question reality Reiz relation retrospective schon Schwelle Schwellen Schwellenwerthe seems selective thinking sensations sensory side social sphere Spitze square Stelle stimulus Tabelle Table teleological tendency theory thing threshold tion University Urtheil variations Versuche Versuchen Versuchsperson Vexirfehler visual volition waren wurde wurden zwei Spitzen ΙΟ
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Page 94 - THE PRINCIPLES OF MENTAL PHYSIOLOGY. With their Applications to the Training and Discipline of the Mind, and the Study of its Morbid Conditions.
Page 94 - A book that has been long wanted by all who are engaged in the business of teaching and desire to master its principles. In the first place, it is an elaborate treatise on the human mind, of independent merit as representing the latest and best work of all schools of psychological inquiry.
Page 174 - With the opposite (withdrawing, depressive affects) in injurious and painful conditions. ments) — but by the reinstatement of it by a discharge of the energies of the organism, concentrated as far as may be for the excessive stimulation of the organs (muscles, etc.) most nearly fitted by former habit to get this stimulation again (in which the " stimulation " stands for the condition favorable to adaptation).
Page 43 - The book Is written In a clear and simple style ; It breathes a sweet and winning spirit ; and It Is Inspired by a noble purpose. In these respects It is a model of what a text book should be.
Page 182 - ... to secure new qualifications for the creature's survival; and its very working proceeds by securing a new application of the principle of natural selection to the possible modifications which the organism is capable of undergoing. Romanes says: "it is impossible that heredity can have provided in advance for innovations upon or alterations in its own machinery during the lifetime of a particular individual.
Page 151 - ... such a reaction tends to keep itself going, over and over, by reproducing the conditions of its own stimulation. It represents habit, since it tends to keep up old movements; but it secures new adaptations, since it provides for the overproduction of movement-variations for the operation of selection. This kind of selection, since it requires the direct cooperation of the organism itself, I have called
Page 177 - ... of contractility or irritability, whose round of movements is kept up by some kind of nutritive process supplied by the environment — absorption, chemical action of atmospheric oxygen, etc. — and whose existence is threatened by dangers of contact and what not, the first thing to do is to secure a regular supply to the nutritive processes, and to avoid these contacts. But the organism can do nothing but move, as a whole or in some of its parts. So, then, .if one of such creatures is to be...
Page 8 - On the contrary, the process in consciousness is one; and it is a psycho-physical process as well. The particular way in which this one function shows itself is a matter of adaptation to the changing conditions under which the activity is brought about. This transition is due in part also to the insight of Herbart and to the demand for unity insisted upon by the evolutionists. The other point of contrast is equally plain. The ' genetic ' point of view in current discussion is opposed to the older...
Page 43 - I value it for its large acquaintance with English Philosophy, which has not led him to neglect the great German works.
Page 177 - Reaction," in that its significance for evolution is that it is not a random response in movement to all stimulations alike, but that (it distinguishes...