The Mind of Man: A Text-book of Psychology

Gustav Spiller

S. Sonnenschein & Company, lim., 1902 - Human information processing - 552 pages

Contents

• The Foundations of Psychology: 8
• The Use of Hypotheses PART I: 10
• CHAPTER I: 11
• Approaches to the Study of Psychology: 14
• Introspection: 17
• Practical Psychology: 20
• Detail and General Fact: 23
• Systematic Observation: 25
• Quantitative Psychology: 31
• Experimental Introspection: 34
• Definition: 37
• Literature of the Subject: 38
• Psychological Terminology: 39
• A Birds Eye View 3 ΤΟ 14 15 20 23 25 31 34 37 38 39: 42
• PART II: 43
• CHAPTER II: 45
• Attention is Dependent on Stimuli 17 The Beginnings of Sensations: 47
• The Area of Sensations and Images: 49
• The Sense Problem: 50
• Classification of Systems: 57
• Keen Normal and Lax Attention: 59
• Attention in the Normal Waking State is Quantitatively alike with All Men at All Times: 60
• Felt Strain Desire to Attend: 61
• Deliberate Attention: 65
• The Measure of Attention is its Effectiveness: 66
• Attention has no Focus 27 Abnormal Attention: 67
• The Larger Waves of Attention 29 The Smaller Waves of Attention: 69
• Narrowing the Normal Field of Attention: 70
• Expanding the Normal Field of Attention 32 Brain and Mind: 71
• The Field of Attention: 72
• Attention and Heredity: 74
• Observation and Attention: 75
• The Growth of Knowledge Complexes: 76
• Attention to One Object at a Time: 77
• Do we Attend in Habit?: 79
• Can we Attend to Habits?: 80
• The Routine of Life: 81
• Subconscious and Unconscious Thought: 82
• Conditions Favouring Attention: 84
• 45: 87
• 47: 88
• 49: 91
• 50: 92
• The Process of Simplification: 93
• Reduction of Effort: 97
• The Result of Liberating Attention Energy: 98
• Does an Organised Trend ever become Automatic ?: 99
• 57: 101
• The Place of Exercise: 102
• 59: 103
• Why is it Difficult to influence Habits?: 105
• 61: 107
• Each Habit is based on Others of its Kind: 108
• Each Habit forms a Basis for Others of its Kind: 110
• What is a Habit? III: 111
• All Thought is Organised: 114
• 65a Habit and Thought: 119
• The Psychological Method: 120
• CHAPTER IV: 122
• Richness and Poverty of Detail in a Secondary Unit or Idea: 123
• Each of the Five Senses supplies us with the Material for Secondary Units or Ideas: 124
• Secondary Units or Ideas which are generally Overlooked: 125
• WordIdeas as such: 126
• Why Secondary Units or Ideas tend to have Little Content: 127
• 76a General Ideas: 128
• 76b Speech and Thought: 130
• Reproduction of Motion and Detail: 131
• Vividness is no Test of Objectivity: 132
• Observation is Teleologically Determined: 133
• Memory Contents Dwindle: 134
• Sense Impressions are One with Images: 136
• Movement and Thought: 137
• The Nature of Language: 138
• What is a Secondary Unit or an Idea?: 139
• Summary: 140
• The Dynamics of our Subject: 141
• Secondary Complications: 143
• Development Excitement and Secondary Complications: 144
• 90a Associationism: 146
• Ideational Complications: 151
• Some Results of Economisation: 152
• The Language of the Adult: 153
• We are not restricted to One Unit or Idea at a Time: 154
• General Methods in Thought: 155
• Knowledge is mostly a Social Product: 159
• The Origin of Needs and their Classification: 160
• A Complex Ideational Process Examined: 161
• 99b SemiConnection or Doubt and Related States: 163
• 99c Generalisation or Topical Reaction: 164
• 99d Abstraction: 165
• IOI Economisation and Combination: 166
• Memory and Combination: 167
• Interdependence and Interaction in Combining: 169
• History of the Subject: 170
• A Birds Eye View: 172
• CHAPTER V: 173
• The Persistence of Neural Modifications: 176
• Sudden ReCollection: 179
• 110a The Nature of Recency: 181
• 60: 182
• Memory Slowly Fades: 184
• Cramming: 185
• We forget Most Things: 186
• The Process of DeDevelopment: 190
• ReDevelopment is Attention to Surviving Traces: 191
• No Detailed Image in the Memory: 192
• Images are soon Exhausted: 193
• Visuals Audiles Motiles Emotiles and Mentals: 195
• Shakespeares Language: 205
• Shakespeares Insight: 206
• The Object of Shakespeares Sonnets: 207
• The Place of Shakespeares Sonnets: 208
• Shakespeare as Dramatist: 209
• Men of Genius: 211
• Individual Character: 212
• Relation to Needs: 213
• The Evolution of the Individual: 214
• The Acquisition of Language: 215
• The Nature of the Nervous System determines how far we are Drawn: 246
• Irritants: 259
• Neural Disturbance is Absent from Normal Defensive Activity: 265
• 66: 271
• Conclusions: 279
• The Effect of Volitions: 286
• Deliberation: 293
• Desire: 301
• Action from Special Motives: 307
• Will: 309
• Will as Assertion: 311
• The Absolute Value of Felt Effort: 313
• The Sense of Effort: 315
• The Tripartite Division in Psychology: 318
• A Birds Eye View: 321
• CHAPTER VIII: 322
• Other Classes of Systems: 323
• Mind and Matter: 324
• Force: 326
• Appearance and Reality: 327
• The Self: 328
• 176a The Nature of Mind: 330
• Presentations: 332
• Inner and Outer: 333
• Memory: 335
• Space: 336
• 182a The Space of Sight and Touch: 347
• 183 Time: 348
• Cause and Effect: 349
• Freedom: 351
• Mental Activity: 352
• Reason Understanding: 353
• Persistence: 355
• Evolution: 356
• Others: 357
• Subject and Object: 359
• Life: 361
• Death: 363
• Science: 364
• Physical Science and Psychology: 366
• Monism Dualism etc: 367
• A Birds Eye View: 370
• PART III: 371
• CHAPTER IX: 373
• 67: 374
• Shakespeare and the Sonnet Form: 375
• CHAPTER X: 418
• Deliberate Action Speech and Thought 418: 421
• The History of DreamLife 231 Additional Considerations 232 Provoked Dreams and Related Facts 233 Animal Psychology 234 A Birds Eye View 2...: 430
• Dreams 225 ExtraOrganic Stimuli in Dreams: 436
• IntraOrganic and Efferent Stimuli in Dreams: 438
• The Place of Reason in the DreamState: 441
• Influencing the DreamState 429 430: 443
• CHAPTER XI: 468
• 468 479 481 237 Inference: 479
• Misleading Beliefs: 481
• Education: 482
• Fashion: 483
• The Esthetic Standard 243 Prose and Poetry: 487
• Music: 491
• The Comic: 492
• The Imagination: 496
• Play: 499
• A Birds Eye View: 501
• SUMMARY: 503
• Index of Subjects: 509
• 69 70 71 71: 510
• Index of Authors: 522
• Index of Publications: 532

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Bibliographic information

• Title: The Mind of Man: A Text-book of Psychology; Ethical series; Half-title: Ethical series
• Author: Gustav Spiller
• Publisher: S. Sonnenschein & Company, lim., 1902
• Original from: the University of Wisconsin - Madison
• Digitized: Jan 7, 2008
• Length: 552 pages