The Principles of Psychology, Volume 1 |
What people are saying - Write a review
User ratings
| 5 stars |
| ||
| 4 stars |
| ||
| 3 stars |
| ||
| 2 stars |
| ||
| 1 star |
|
LibraryThing Review
User Review - wildbill - LibraryThingThe first time I started this book I was in my teens. This time I was able to get past the first fifty pages and found an enjoyable and at times disturbing book. The book contains elements of satire ... Read full review
LibraryThing Review
User Review - donbuch1 - LibraryThingThis classic series represents the Western canon not without academic controversy. The latest volumes of the Great Books include some women writers, but they are still definitely underrepresented ... Read full review
Other editions - View all
Common terms and phrases
abstract activity anaesthesia anaesthetic aphasia appear asso association associationist attention awaken become bodily brain brain-process called cerebral chapter conceived conception condition connection consciousness cortex discrimination distinct effect elements excited exist experience F. H. Bradley fact faculty feeling felt frog function give habit hand hemispheres ideas identity impression interest interval James Mill knowledge matter means medulla oblongata memory mental metaphysical mind motor movements muscular nature nervous never notion object observation occipital lobes once organs pass past paths perceive perception person phenomena Physiol possible present psychic psychology reaction reaction-time reason recall redintegration reflex reflex action relation remember result seems sensations sense sensibility sensorial simple sort soul sound specious present spinal cord spiritualistic stimulus stream succession suppose theory things thought tion Weber's law whilst whole words writing Wundt
Popular passages
Page 294 - are individuals who recognize him and carry an image of him in their mind. To wound any one of these his images is to wound him.* But as the individuals who carry the images fall naturally into classes, we may practically say that he has as many different social selves as
Page 351 - aside some metaphysicians of this kind, I may venture to affirm of the rest of mankind that they are nothing but a bundle or collection of different perceptions, which succeed each other with an inconceivable rapidity,
Page 148 - is that I prolong the vision backward across the boundary of the experimental evidence, and discern in that matter which we, in our ignorance and notwithstanding our professed reverence for its Creator, have hitherto covered with opprobrium the promise and potency of every form and quality of life.
Page 549 - the duke Who this great tight did win.' ' But what good came of it at last? ' Quoth little Peterkin. Why, that I cannot tell, said he,
Page 596 - These are therefore the principles of union or cohesion among our simple ideas, and in the imagination supply the place of that inseparable connection by which they are united in our memory. Here is a kind of ATTRACTION, which in the mental world will be found to
Page 352 - is properly no simplicity in it at one time, nor identity in different ; whatever natural propension we may have to imagine that simplicity and identity. The comparison of the theatre must not mislead us. They are the successive perceptions only, that constitute the mind ; nor have we the most distant notion of the place where these scenes are represented, nor of the
Page 476 - several particular ideas, any one of which it indifferently suggests to the mind. An idea which, considered in itself, is particular, becomes general by being made to represent or stand for all other particular ideas of the same sort.
Page 147 - The passage from the physics of the brain to the corresponding facts of consciousness is unthinkable. Granted that a definite thought and a definite molecular action in the brain occur simultaneously ; we do not possess the intellectual organ, nor apparently any rudiment of the organ, which would enable us to pass, by a process of reasoning, from one to the other.
Page 561 - Actions, Sensations, and States of Feeling, occurring together or in close succession, tend to grow together, or cohere, in such a way that, when any one of them is afterwards presented to the mind, the others are apt to be brought up in idea
Page 352 - inhere in something simple or individual, or did the mind perceive some real connection among them, there would be no difficulty in the case. For my part, I must plead the privilege of a sceptic and confess that this difficulty is too hard for my understanding. J
Bibliographic information
| Title | The Principles of Psychology, Volume 1 American science series: Advanced course Library of American civilization The Principles of Psychology, William James |
| Author | William James |
| Publisher | H. Holt, 1918 |
| Length | 1393 pages |
| Export Citation | BiBTeX EndNote RefMan |