The Nature of ConductMacmillan, 1928 - 346 páginas |
Términos y frases comunes
action associated attitude baffling situation become behavior Behaviorist body called central nervous system cerebellum cerebrum character child Company concept Conduct codes confacts control of conduct correlation cues curriculum custom definite desirable elements emotional experience experimental factors feelings formation function give habits hand honesty hygiene ideals ideas ideo-motor activity ideo-motor bonds important impulse interoceptive J. B. Lippincott Company kinaesthetic knowledge learning loyalty means medulla oblongata method moral movement muscles muscular response nerve nervous system neurone objectives one's organic drives organic reactions pathological conduct peripheral stimuli person physiology play practice problems psychology pupil purpose Raymond Pearl reactions readiness reasoning reference result rules school discipline Scout sense social specific spinal cord symbols sympathetic nervous system synapse teach teacher thalamus things thought tion traits truth unreadiness urge valid verbal response visceral words
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Página 55 - In the various enumerations of the moral virtues, I had met with in my reading, I found the catalogue more or less numerous, as different writers included more or fewer ideas under the same name. Temperance, for example, was, by some, confined to eating and drinking; while by others it was extended to mean the moderating every other pleasure, appetite, inclination, or passion, bodily or mental, even to our avarice and ambition.
Página 56 - Drink not to elevation. 2. Silence Speak not but what may benefit others or yourself. Avoid trifling conversation. 3. Order Let all your things have their places. Let each part of your business have its time.
Página 98 - For this we must make automatic and habitual, as early as possible, as many useful actions as we can, and guard against the growing into ways that are likely to be disadvantageous to us, as we should guard against the plague.
Página 66 - ... what is right and what is wrong; what is true and what is false; what is good and what is bad; what is pleasing and what is not pleasing.
Página 56 - TEMPERANCE Eat not to dullness; drink not to elevation. 2. SILENCE Speak not but what may benefit others or yourself; avoid trifling conversation. 3. ORDER Let all your things have their places; let each part of your business have its time. 4. RESOLUTION Resolve to perform what you ought; perform without fail what you resolve. 5. FRUGALITY Make no expense but to do good to others or yourself; ie, waste nothing. 6. INDUSTRY Lose no time; be always employed in something useful; cut off all unnecessary...
Página 55 - It was about this time I conceiv'd the bold and arduous project of arriving at moral perfection. I wish'd to live without committing any fault at any time ; I would conquer all that either natural inclination, custom, or company might lead me into. As I knew, or thought I knew, what was right and wrong, I did not see why I might not always do the one and avoid the other. But I soon found I had undertaken a task of more difficulty than I had imagined.
Página 241 - When put into the box the cat would show evident signs of discomfort and of an impulse to escape from confinement.
Página 197 - White rat suddenly taken from the basket and presented to Albert. He began to reach for rat with left hand. Just as his hand touched the animal the bar was struck immediately behind his head. The infant jumped violently and fell forward, burying his face in the mattress. He did not cry, however.
Página 60 - A thief is a menace to me and others. 4. I will do promptly what I have promised to do. If I have made a foolish promise, I will at once confess my mistake, and I will try to make good any harm which my mistake may have caused. I will so speak and act that people will find it easier to trust each other.
Página 145 - What ought you to say when someone asks your opinion about a person you don't know very well?