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... child's first ideas about the soul are necessarily derived from , or fashioned after , material things . As a further reason , it is evident that in trying to account for the phenomena of life , such as self - initiated movement and ...
... child's first ideas about the soul are necessarily derived from , or fashioned after , material things . As a further reason , it is evident that in trying to account for the phenomena of life , such as self - initiated movement and ...
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... child inherits from its series of progenitors , woven into the texture of its nervous system , a number of dispositions repre- senting ages of ancestral experience . In this way we are able to view the mental life of the individual as ...
... child inherits from its series of progenitors , woven into the texture of its nervous system , a number of dispositions repre- senting ages of ancestral experience . In this way we are able to view the mental life of the individual as ...
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... child , and that it is from the first excited reflexly , that is , in response to sensory stimulation . We may ... child's mind we have to assume under each of its three phases a group of elements , or simple original phenomena ...
... child , and that it is from the first excited reflexly , that is , in response to sensory stimulation . We may ... child's mind we have to assume under each of its three phases a group of elements , or simple original phenomena ...
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... child's mental life . A glance at some of the more important of these original psycho - physical arrangements must suffice . To begin with , the formation of our various intellectual products , our perceptions and ideas of things , are ...
... child's mental life . A glance at some of the more important of these original psycho - physical arrangements must suffice . To begin with , the formation of our various intellectual products , our perceptions and ideas of things , are ...
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... child brings with it into the world an outfit of instinctive tendencies or dispositions constituting the natural basis of the civilised and moralised man . These ten- dencies , being comparatively late in their acquirement by the race ...
... child brings with it into the world an outfit of instinctive tendencies or dispositions constituting the natural basis of the civilised and moralised man . These ten- dencies , being comparatively late in their acquirement by the race ...
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action afferent nerves analysis assimilation association basal ganglia bodily body brain by-and-by called central centres chap child colour colour-sensations complex conation concomitant connected connexion consciousness constituent correlated corresponding definite degree differentiation direction discrimination distinct distinguished effect elementary Encyclopædia Britannica excitation experience extent external fact factor feeling fibres function G. H. Lewes Hence Herbartian idea ideational illustrated impressions intensity involves J. S. Mill known Ladd localisation ment mental activity mind mode motor movement Münsterberg muscles muscular sensations nerve-cell nerve-centres nerves nervous process nervous system object observation organs particular perception peripheral physical Physiol physiological presentative element Principles of Psychology process of attention psychical elements psychical phenomena psychical processes psycho-physical psychosis recent recognised reference region relation result retina revival sensibility sensory skin sound stimulation structure Stumpf supposed tactual thing tion tones touch visual visual perception Wundt
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