The Field of Psychology: A Survey of Experience, Individual, Social, and Genetic

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Appleton, 1924 - 545 ページ
 

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448 ページ - The above and other analogous observed facts indicate that all branches of intellectual activity have in common one fundamental function (or group of functions) whereas the remaining or specific elements of the activity seem in every case to be wholly different from that in all the others.
401 ページ - Of course, there are limits; the trees don't grow into the sky. But the plain fact remains that men the world over possess amounts of resource, which only very exceptional individuals push to their extremes of use. But the very same individual, pushing his energies to their extreme, may in a vast number of cases keep the pace up day after day, and find no 'reaction' of a bad sort, so long as decent hygienic conditions are preserved.
223 ページ - As you close first one eye and then the other, you will notice that the...
470 ページ - ... are alike products of natural selection. There may be a sense in which the statement is true; but till we know the specific environing conditions under which selection took place we really know nothing. And so we need to know about the social conditions which have educated original activities into definite and significant dispositions before we can discuss the psychological element in society.
97 ページ - any given regular periodic form of vibration can always be produced by the addition of simple vibrations, having vibrational numbers, which are once, twice, thrice, four times, etc., as great as the vibrational number of the given motion.
331 ページ - ... The Psychology of Learning ":. CHAPTER I INTRODUCTION The intellect, character and skill possessed by any man is the product of certain original tendencies and the training which they have received. His eventual nature is the development of his original nature in the environment which it has had. Human nature in general is the result of the original nature of man, the laws of learning, and the forces of nature amongst which man lives and learns.
106 ページ - A, from spinal ganglion; B, from ventral horn of spinal cord- C, pyramidal cell from...
470 ページ - THE human mind has certain innate or inherited tendencies which are the essential springs or motive powers of all thought and action, whether individual or collective, and are the bases from which the character and will of individuals and of nations are gradually developed under the guidance of the intellectual faculties.
401 ページ - We ought somehow," the author says, "to get a topographic survey made of the limits of human power in every conceivable direction, something like an ophthalmologist's chart of the limits of the human field of vision; and we ought then to construct a methodical inventory of the paths of access, or keys, differing with the diverse types of individual, to the different kinds of power. This would be an absolutely concrete study, to be carried on by using historical and biographical material mainly,
442 ページ - Mental Growth Curve of Normal and Superior Children. University of Iowa Studies in Child Welfare, Vol.

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