
The Principles of Psychology, Volume 1 (of 2)
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This is the first inexpensive edition of the completeLong Course in Principles of Psychology, one of the great classics of modern Western literature and science and the source of the ripest thoughts of America’s most important philosopher. As such, it should not be confused with the many abridgements that omit key sections.The book presents lucid descriptions of human mental activity, with detailed considerations of the stream of thought, consciousness, time perception, memory, imagination, emotions, reason, abnormal phenomena, and similar topics. In its course it takes into account the work o...
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- THE PRINCIPLES OF PSYCHOLOGY
- WILLIAM JAMES
- PROFESSOR OF PSYCHOLOGY IN HARVARD UNIVERSITY
- IN TWO VOLUMES VOL. I
- PREFACE.
- CONTENTS.
- PSYCHOLOGY.
- THE SCOPE OF PSYCHOLOGY.
- THE FUNCTIONS OF THE BRAIN.
- THE FROG'S NERVE-CENTRES.
- GENERAL NOTION OF HEMISPHERES.
- THE EDUCATION OF THE HEMISPHERES.
- THE PHRENOLOGICAL CONCEPTION.
- THE LOCALIZATION OF FUNCTIONS IN THE HEMISPHERES.
- Sight.
- Hearing.
- Smell.
- Taste
- Touch.
- MAN'S CONSCIOUSNESS LIMITED TO THE HEMISPHERES.
- THE RESTITUTION OF FUNCTION.
- FINAL CORRECTION OF THE MEYNERT SCHEME.
- CONCLUSION.
- ON SOME GENERAL CONDITIONS OF BRAIN-ACTIVITY.
- THE SUMMATION OF STIMULI
- REACTION-TIME.
- CEREBRAL BLOOD-SUPPLY.
- CEREBRAL THERMOMETRY.
- Phosphorus and Thought.
- HABIT.
- THE AUTOMATON-THEORY.
- REASONS FOR THE THEORY.
- REASONS AGAINST THE THEORY.
- THE MIND-STUFF THEORY.
- EVOLUTIONARY PSYCHOLOGY DEMANDS A MIND-DUST.
- SOME ALLEGED PROOFS THAT MIND-DUST EXISTS.
- INSUFFICIENCY OF THESE PROOFS.
- SELF-COMPOUNDING OF MENTAL FACTS IS INADMISSIBLE.
- CAN STATES OF MIND BE UNCONSCIOUS?
- DO UNCONSCIOUS MENTAL STATES EXIST?
- DIFFICULTY OF STATING THE CONNECTION BETWEEN MIND AND BRAIN.
- THE MATERIAL-MONAD THEORY.
- THE SOUL-THEORY.
- THE METHODS AND SNARES OF PSYCHOLOGY
- PSYCHOLOGY IS A NATURAL SCIENCE.
- THE METHODS OF INVESTIGATION.
- THE SOURCES OF ERROR IN PSYCHOLOGY.
- THE RELATIONS OF MINDS TO OTHER THINGS.
- TIME-RELATIONS.
- Are we ever wholly unconscious?
- 'Unconsciousness' in Hysterics.
- RELATIONS OF CONSCIOUSNESS TO SPACE.
- THE RELATIONS OF MINDS TO OTHER OBJECTS
- THE STREAM OF THOUGHT.
- FIVE CHARACTERS IN THOUGHT.
- 1) Thought tends to Personal Form.
- 2) Thought is in Constant Change.
- 3) Within each personal consciousness, thought is sensibly continuous.
- Feelings of Tendency.
- 4. Human thought appears to deal with objects independent of itself; that is, it is cognitive, or possesses the function of knowing.
- 5) It is always interested more in one part of its object than in another, and welcomes and rejects, or chooses, all the while it thinks.
- THE CONSCIOUSNESS OF SELF.
- THE EMPIRICAL SELF OR ME.
- 2. SELF-FEELING.
- 3. SELF-SEEKING AND SELF-PRESERVATION.
- RIVALRY AND CONFLICT OF THE DIFFERENT SELVES.
- WHAT SELF IS LOVED IN 'SELF-LOVE'?
- THE PURE EGO.
- The Sense of Personal Identity.
- THE PURE SELF OR INNER PRINCIPLE OF PERSONAL UNITY.
- The Theory of the Soul.
- The Associationist Theory.
- THE TRANSCENDENTALIST THEORY.
- Certain vicissitudes in the me demand our notice.
- THE MUTATIONS OF THE SELF
- SUMMARY.
- ATTENTION.
- TO HOW MANY THINGS CAN WE ATTEND AT ONCE?
- THE VARIETIES OF ATTENTION.
- THE EFFECTS OF ATTENTION.
- THE INTIMATE NATURE OF THE ATTENTIVE PROCESS.
- IS VOLUNTARY ATTENTION A RESULTANT OR A FORCE?
- INATTENTION.
- CONCEPTION. THE SENSE OF SAMENESS.
- CONCEPTION DEFINED.
- CONCEPTIONS ARE UNCHANGEABLE.
- 'ABSTRACT' IDEAS.
- UNIVERSALS.
- DISCRIMINATION AND COMPARISON.
- THE PRINCIPLE OF MEDIATE COMPARISON.
- ARE ALL DIFFERENCES DIFFERENCES OF COMPOSITION?
- THE CONDITIONS OF DISCRIMINATION.
- THE PROCESS OF ANALYSIS.
- THE PROCESS OF ABSTRACTION.
- THE IMPROVEMENT OF DISCRIMINATION BY PRACTICE.
- PRACTICAL INTERESTS LIMIT DISCRIMINATION.
- REACTION-TIME AFTER DISCRIMINATION.
- THE PERCEPTION OF LIKENESS.
- THE MAGNITUDE OF DIFFERENCES.
- THE MEASURE OF DISCRIMINATIVE SENSIBILITY.
- Theoretic Interpretation of Weber's Law
- Weber's law is probably purely physiological.
- ASSOCIATION.
- THE RAPIDITY OF ASSOCIATION.
- THE LAW OF CONTIGUITY.
- THE ELEMENTARY LAW OF ASSOCIATION.
- Impartial Redintegration.
- ORDINARY OR MIXED ASSOCIATION.
- ASSOCIATION BY SIMILARITY.
- ASSOCIATION IN VOLUNTARY THOUGHT.
- SIMILARITY NO ELEMENTARY LAW.
- THE HISTORY OF OPINION CONCERNING ASSOCIATION
- THE PERCEPTION OF TIME.
- THE SENSIBLE PRESENT HAS DURATION.
- ACCURACY OF OUR ESTIMATE OF SHORT DURATIONS.
- WE HAVE NO SENSE FOR EMPTY TIME.
- THE FEELING OF PAST TIME IS A PRESENT FEELING.
- TO WHAT CEREBRAL PROCESS IS THE SENSE OF TIME DUE?
- MEMORY.
- PRIMARY MEMORY.
- ANALYSIS OF THE PHENOMENON OF MEMORY.
- MEMORY'S CAUSES.
- THE CONDITIONS OF GOODNESS IN MEMORY.
- ONE'S NATIVE RETENTIVENESS IS UNCHANGEABLE.
- EXACT MEASUREMENTS OF MEMORY
- FORGETTING.
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