The Principles of Psychology

About this eBook

Author

James, William, 1842-1910

Title

The Principles of Psychology, Volume 1 (of 2)

Credits

Produced by Clare Graham & Marc D'Hooghe at Free Literature (Images generously made available by the Hathi Trust.)

Language

English

LoC Class

BF: Philosophy, Psychology, Religion: Psychology, Philosophy, Psychoanalysis

Subject

Psychology

Category

Text

Project Gutenberg

eBook-No. 57628

Release Date

August 2, 2018

Copyright

Public domain in the USA.

Contents

1. 1.THE PRINCIPLES OF PSYCHOLOGY — BY
2. 2.WILLIAM JAMES — PROFESSOR OF PSYCHOLOGY IN HARVARD UNIVERSITY — IN TWO VOLUMES — VOL. I — PREFACE. — CONTENTS. — PSYCHOLOGY. — THE SCOPE OF PSYCHOLOGY. — THE FUNCTIONS OF THE BRAIN. — THE FROG'S NERVE-CENTRES. — GENERAL NOTION OF HEMISPHERES. — THE EDUCATION OF THE HEMISPHERES. — THE PHRENOLOGICAL CONCEPTION. — THE LOCALIZATION OF FUNCTIONS IN THE HEMISPHERES. — Sight. — Hearing. — Smell. — Taste — Touch. — MAN'S CONSCIOUSNESS LIMITED TO THE HEMISPHERES. — THE RESTITUTION OF FUNCTION. — FINAL CORRECTION OF THE MEYNERT SCHEME. — CONCLUSION. — ON SOME GENERAL CONDITIONS OF BRAIN-ACTIVITY. — THE SUMMATION OF STIMULI — REACTION-TIME. — CEREBRAL BLOOD-SUPPLY. — CEREBRAL THERMOMETRY. — Phosphorus and Thought. — HABIT. — THE AUTOMATON-THEORY. — REASONS FOR THE THEORY. — REASONS AGAINST THE THEORY. — THE MIND-STUFF THEORY. — EVOLUTIONARY PSYCHOLOGY DEMANDS A MIND-DUST. — SOME ALLEGED PROOFS THAT MIND-DUST EXISTS. — INSUFFICIENCY OF THESE PROOFS. — SELF-COMPOUNDING OF MENTAL FACTS IS INADMISSIBLE. — CAN STATES OF MIND BE UNCONSCIOUS? — DO UNCONSCIOUS MENTAL STATES EXIST? — DIFFICULTY OF STATING THE CONNECTION BETWEEN MIND AND BRAIN. — THE MATERIAL-MONAD THEORY. — THE SOUL-THEORY. — THE METHODS AND SNARES OF PSYCHOLOGY — PSYCHOLOGY IS A NATURAL SCIENCE. — THE METHODS OF INVESTIGATION. — THE SOURCES OF ERROR IN PSYCHOLOGY. — THE RELATIONS OF MINDS TO OTHER THINGS. — TIME-RELATIONS. — Are we ever wholly unconscious? — 'Unconsciousness' in Hysterics. — RELATIONS OF CONSCIOUSNESS TO SPACE. — THE RELATIONS OF MINDS TO OTHER OBJECTS — THE STREAM OF THOUGHT. — FIVE CHARACTERS IN THOUGHT. — 1) Thought tends to Personal Form. — 2) Thought is in Constant Change. — 3) Within each personal consciousness, thought is sensibly continuous. — Feelings of Tendency. — 4. Human thought appears to deal with objects independent of itself; that is, it is cognitive, or possesses the function of knowing. — 5) It is always interested more in one part of its object than in another, and welcomes and rejects, or chooses, all the while it thinks. — THE CONSCIOUSNESS OF SELF. — THE EMPIRICAL SELF OR ME. — 2. SELF-FEELING. — 3. SELF-SEEKING AND SELF-PRESERVATION. — RIVALRY AND CONFLICT OF THE DIFFERENT SELVES. — WHAT SELF IS LOVED IN 'SELF-LOVE'? — THE PURE EGO. — The Sense of Personal Identity. — THE PURE SELF OR INNER PRINCIPLE OF PERSONAL UNITY. — The Theory of the Soul. — The Associationist Theory. — THE TRANSCENDENTALIST THEORY. — Certain vicissitudes in the me demand our notice. — THE MUTATIONS OF THE SELF — SUMMARY. — ATTENTION. — TO HOW MANY THINGS CAN WE ATTEND AT ONCE? — THE VARIETIES OF ATTENTION. — THE EFFECTS OF ATTENTION. — THE INTIMATE NATURE OF THE ATTENTIVE PROCESS. — IS VOLUNTARY ATTENTION A RESULTANT OR A FORCE? — INATTENTION. — CONCEPTION. — THE SENSE OF SAMENESS. — CONCEPTION DEFINED. — CONCEPTIONS ARE UNCHANGEABLE. — 'ABSTRACT' IDEAS. — UNIVERSALS. — DISCRIMINATION AND COMPARISON. — THE PRINCIPLE OF MEDIATE COMPARISON. — ARE ALL DIFFERENCES DIFFERENCES OF COMPOSITION? — THE CONDITIONS OF DISCRIMINATION. — THE PROCESS OF ANALYSIS. — THE PROCESS OF ABSTRACTION. — THE IMPROVEMENT OF DISCRIMINATION BY PRACTICE. — PRACTICAL INTERESTS LIMIT DISCRIMINATION. — REACTION-TIME AFTER DISCRIMINATION. — THE PERCEPTION OF LIKENESS. — THE MAGNITUDE OF DIFFERENCES. — THE MEASURE OF DISCRIMINATIVE SENSIBILITY. — Theoretic Interpretation of Weber's Law — Weber's law is probably purely physiological. — ASSOCIATION. — THE RAPIDITY OF ASSOCIATION. — THE LAW OF CONTIGUITY. — THE ELEMENTARY LAW OF ASSOCIATION. — Impartial Redintegration. — ORDINARY OR MIXED ASSOCIATION. — ASSOCIATION BY SIMILARITY. — ASSOCIATION IN VOLUNTARY THOUGHT. — SIMILARITY NO ELEMENTARY LAW. — THE HISTORY OF OPINION CONCERNING ASSOCIATION — THE PERCEPTION OF TIME. — THE SENSIBLE PRESENT HAS DURATION. — ACCURACY OF OUR ESTIMATE OF SHORT DURATIONS. — WE HAVE NO SENSE FOR EMPTY TIME. — THE FEELING OF PAST TIME IS A PRESENT FEELING. — TO WHAT CEREBRAL PROCESS IS THE SENSE OF TIME DUE? — MEMORY. — PRIMARY MEMORY. — ANALYSIS OF THE PHENOMENON OF MEMORY. — MEMORY'S CAUSES. — THE CONDITIONS OF GOODNESS IN MEMORY. — ONE'S NATIVE RETENTIVENESS IS UNCHANGEABLE. — EXACT MEASUREMENTS OF MEMORY — FORGETTING. — INDEX.

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