The New Psychology and Its Relation to Life

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G. Allen & Unwin Limited, 1920 - 283 من الصفحات
 

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الصفحة 25 - We may, then, define an instinct as an inherited or innate psycho-physical disposition which determines its possessor to perceive, and to pay attention to, objects of a certain class, to experience an emotional excitement of a particular quality upon perceiving such an object, and to act in regard to it in a particular manner, or, at least, to experience an impulse to such action.
الصفحة 175 - ... in which conduct is controlled in the main by the anticipation of social praise and blame; (4) the highest stage, in which conduct is regulated by an ideal of conduct that enables a man to act in the way that seems to him right regardless of the praise or blame of his immediate social environment.
الصفحة 131 - People who possess some fault or deficiency of which they are ashamed, are notoriously intolerant of that same fault or deficiency in others. Thus the parvenu who is secretly conscious of his own social deficiencies talks much of the "bounders
الصفحة 25 - The distinct patterns are the so-called instincts, defined as "an inherited or innate psycho-physical disposition which determines its possessor to perceive, and pay attention to, objects of a certain class, to experience an emotional excitement of a particular quality upon perceiving such an object, and to act in regard to it in a particular manner, or, at least, to experience an impulse to such action".
الصفحة 153 - ... the force of the arguments propounded by the opposite side. Now, it should be observed that the individual himself is probably quite unaware of this mechanism in his mind. He fondly imagines that his opinion is formed solely by the logical pros and cons of the measure before him. We see, in fact, that not only is his thinking determined by a complex of whose action he is unconscious, but that he believes his thoughts to be the result of other causes which are in reality insufficient and illusory....
الصفحة 24 - The instinctive impulses determine the ends of all activities and supply the driving power by which all mental activities are sustained...
الصفحة 20 - It is a course of action which the body takes or is prepared (by motor set) to take with reference to objects, relations or events in the environment. The prophetic quality of thought which makes it seem that thought is the hidden and inner secret of conduct is due to the fact that thought is the preceding labile interplay of motor settings which goes on almost constantly, and which differs from overt conduct in that the energy involved is too small to produce gross bodily movements.
الصفحة 12 - My object in this chapter is to show that there is no fundamental difference between man and the higher mammals in their mental faculties.
الصفحة 137 - Here — here's his place, where meteors shoot, clouds form, Lightnings are loosened, Stars come and go! let joy break with the storm — Peace let the dew send! Lofty designs must close in like effects: Loftily lying, Leave him — still loftier than the world suspects, Living and dying.
الصفحة 14 - ... deranged function more or less in isolation, and to get an idea of its real meaning and character which we cannot get when it is kept in check by the opposing tendencies which ordinarily maintain the balance of the whole organism. The New Psychology, then, looks upon the human mind as a highly evolved organism, intimately adapted, as regards its most fundamental traits, to the needs of its possessor, built up and elaborated during a long course of evolution in constant relation to those needs,...

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