Psychology: An Introductory Study of the Structure and Function of Human Consciousness
H. Holt, 1904 - 402 من الصفحات
Psychologists have hitherto devoted the larger part of their energy to investigating the structure of the mind. Of late, however, there has been manifest a disposition to deal more fully with its functional and genetic phases. To determine how consciousness develops and how it operates is felt to be quite as important as the discovery of its constituent elements. This book attempts to set forth in an elementary way the generally accepted facts and principles bearing upon these adjacent fields of psychological inquiry, so far as they pertain to the mind of man. Inasmuch as it is mental activity, rather than mental structure, which has immediate significance for thought and conduct, it is hoped that students of philosophy, as well as students of education, may find the book especially useful. The differing conditions under which introductory courses in psychology are offered at various institutions render it desirable that a text-book should be adaptable to more than one set of circumstances. The present text has accordingly been arranged with the purpose of permitting considerable flexibility in the emphasis laid upon the several portions of the subject. This fact accounts for an amount of repetition and cross-reference which otherwise would have been regarded as unnecessary. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2004 APA, all rights reserved).
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الصفحة 140 - The formation of the elements of the process of knowledge and the inauguration of the control of our movements in accordance with the mandates of experience — these are the two great functions of perception."2 If this quotation is taken literally, then "perceptions" must be regarded as entities which inaugurate and control our movements.
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الصفحة 379 - The term will is simply a convenient appellation for the whole range of mental life viewed from the standpoint of its activity and control over movement.
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