Elements of Psychology: Designed Especially for Young TeachersAmerican book Company, 1889 - 184 páginas |
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Elements of Psychology: Designed Especially for Young Teachers Edwin Crawford Hewett Visualização integral - 1889 |
Elements of Psychology: Designed Especially for Young Teachers Edwin Crawford Hewett Visualização integral - 1889 |
Elements of Psychology: Designed Especially for Young Teachers Edwin Crawford Hewett Visualização integral - 1889 |
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abstract action argument attention bodily body brain called cause cept child choice clearly cognized color conclusion conscience consciousness contradictory copula cultivated definition desire distinct emotion enthymeme eral exercise experience expressed fact faculties false feeling give grand classes habit hearing hence idea imagination induction instance intellect intuitive judgment kind knowledge laws logical concept major term matter mean ment mental activity mental force mental power middle term mind's power moral motives nature nerves Nominalists Non-Ego object observation odor perception person pict polygon premises proposition psychical Psychology pupils quadrilateral qualities reason recall Reflective Power reflex action relation remember respect result rience SCIENTIFIC CLASSIFICATION seems sensation sense sense-perception Sensibility sight simply sixth sense Socrates sometimes sound space statement student syllogism taste teacher TEN PRECEPTS Themistocles things thought tion true truth uncon volition words writers
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Página 104 - The twilight hours, like birds, flew by, As lightly and as free ; Ten thousand stars were in the sky, Ten thousand on the sea : , For every wave with dimpled face, That leaped upon the air, Had caught a star in its embrace And held it trembling there.
Página 95 - No, sir," answered Magliabechi, " It is impossible, for there is but one in the world; that is in the Grand Signior's library at Constantinople, and is the seventh book on the second shelf on the right hand as you go in.
Página 82 - Thoughts which have, at any time, recent or remote, stood to each other in the relation of co-existence, or immediate consecution, do, when severally reproduced, tend to reproduce each other.
Página 49 - We may illustrate it, — that is, we may show it to be true in any given case ; but we can not prove that it will always be true in every case. The contradictory, viz., that the whole is not equal to the sum of all its parts, is seen to be absurd at once by any one capable of understanding the statement.
Página 40 - The attention of the child can be gained in the first way only—it can be attracted and held for a short time only; but his will is not strong .enough to enable him to attend against his inclination, nor after he has become weary. And yet he must attend if he is to do anything to any purpose. Nor can his attention be secured by frequent calls for attention, nor even by authority. It must be attracted at first, and its object must be changed frequently. It is a gradual process, by which he gets the...
Página 49 - The plaintiff does not use the Word 'narcissus,' but the words 'narcisse noir,' namely 'bla,ck narcissus.' In mathematics it may be true that a whole is equal to the sum of all its parts, and, conversely, that each part is equal to its proportion of the whole. No such principle, however, can be applied to the use of a combination of words or phrases in the field of the law of unfair competition. A phrase or a combination of words may be entitled to absolute protection, while the use...
Página 5 - C. Hewett, LL. D., President of the Illinois State Normal University. 12mo., Cloth, 192 pp. Sample Copy and Introduction Price, 85 cents. This little volume sets before the reader, in simple and compact form, some of the leading facts of the human mind — its power and capabilities, the laws that govern its working and growth — and some truths concerning ways of strengthening and cultivating its powers. It is especially adapted to those who are likely to need the facts of Psychology as a guide...
Página 103 - A primrose by a river's brim A yellow primrose was to him, And, it was nothing more.
Página 30 - We think there is ; and would define consciousness to be the knowledge by the mind of itself as the permanent and indivisible subject of its own operations. This implies a knowledge of the operations, but leaves that knowledge to be given by its own specific faculty while consciousness holds the whole in unity by a constant reference of the different acts and states of the mind to the indivisible self or ego.
Página 24 - Bain — seeming to teach that, whatever it is, the soul has but loose connection with the body. The body might, he assures us, have its bodily functions without the soul, and the soul might have its psychical functions in some other connection than our present bodies.