Talks to Teachers on Psychology and to Students on Some of Life's Ideals

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Courier Corporation, 01‏/08‏/2001 - 146 من الصفحات
Still-vital lectures on teaching deal with psychology and the teaching art, the stream of consciousness, the child as a behaving organism, education and behavior, native and acquired reactions, habit, association of ideas, attention, memory, acquisition of ideas, perception, will, and more. The three addresses to students are "The Gospel of Relaxation," "On a Certain Blindness in Human Beings," and "What Makes a Life Significant?" Preface. 2 black-and-white illus.
 

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Psychology and the Teaching Art
1
The Scream of Consciousness
4
The Child as a Behaving Organism
4
Education and Behavior
15
The Necessity of Reactions
17
Native Reactions and Acquired Reactions
20
What the Native Reactions Are
24
The Laws of Habit
33
Attention
51
Memory
58
The Acquisition of Ideas
71
Apperception
76
The Will
83
TALKS TO STUDENTS
97
The Gospel of Relaxation
99
On a Certain Blindness in Human Beings
113

The Association of Ideas
40
Interest
46
What Makes a Life Significant?
130
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نبذة عن المؤلف (2001)

William James, oldest of five children (including Henry James and Alice James) in the extraordinary James family, was born in New York City on January 11, 1842. He has had a far-reaching influence on writers and thinkers of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Broadly educated by private tutors and through European travel, James initially studied painting. During the Civil War, however, he turned to medicine and physiology, attended Harvard medical school, and became interested in the workings of the mind. His text, The Principles of Psychology (1890), presents psychology as a science rather than a philosophy and emphasizes the connection between the mind and the body. James believed in free will and the power of the mind to affect events and determine the future. In The Will to Believe (1897) and The Varieties of Religious Experience (1902), he explores metaphysical concepts and mystical experiences. He saw truth not as absolute but as relative, depending on the given situation and the forces at work in it. He believed that the universe was not static and orderly but ever-changing and chaotic. His most important work, Pragmatism (1907), examines the practical consequences of behavior and rejects the idealist philosophy of the transcendentalists. This philosophy seems to reinforce the tenets of social Darwinism and the idea of financial success as the justification of the means in a materialistic society; nevertheless, James strove to demonstrate the practical value of ethical behavior. Overall, James's lifelong concern with what he called the "stream of thought" or "stream of consciousness" changed the way writers conceptualize characters and present the relationship between humans, society, and the natural world. He died due to heart failure on August 26, 1910.

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