Outlines of Psychology: With Special Reference to the Theory of Education. A Text-book for Colleges

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D. Appleton, 1884 - 711 páginas
 

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Página 422 - General observations drawn from particulars are the jewels of knowledge, comprehending great store in a little room; but they are therefore to be made with the greater care and caution, lest, if we take counterfeit for true, our loss and shame be the greater when our stock comes to a severe scrutiny.
Página 205 - THE baby new to earth and sky, What time his tender palm is prest Against the circle of the breast, Has never thought that " this is I :" But as he grows he gathers much, And learns the use of "I," and "me," And finds "I am not what I see, And other than the things I touch.
Página 73 - As we have seen, attention, though closely related to the active side of the mind and illustrating the laws of volition, is a general condition of our mental operations. We must therefore understand something about this mode of activity and its laws at the outset. Definition of Attention. Attention may be roughly denned as the active self-direction of the mind to any object which presents itself to it at the moment.
Página 329 - This is in recognition of the well-known pedagogical principles of proceeding from the known to the unknown, and from the simple to the complex.
Página 672 - ... both in different individuals, and in the same individual at different times. And...
Página 365 - The perception of the mind being most aptly explained by words relating to the sight, we shall best understand what is meant by 'clear' and 'obscure' in our ideas, by reflecting on what we call 'clear' and 'obscure
Página 114 - These results may be expressed as follows : In order that the intensity of a sensation may increase in arithmetical progression, the stimulus must increase in a geometrical progression.
Página 48 - By this term is meant a fixed tendency to think, feel, or act in a particular way under special circumstances. The formation of habits is a very important ingredient of what we mean by intellectual development ; but it is not all that is so meant. Habit refers rather to the fixing of mental operations in particular directions.
Página 217 - Thought will be loose and inaccurate when the preliminary stage of perception has been hurried over. The first-hand knowledge of things through personal inspection is worth far more than any second-hand account of them by description.
Página x - ... our work and the conditions under which it is necessarily carried on. Thus mental science enlarges the teacher's notion of education by showing him what a complex thing a human mind is, in how many ways it may grow, how many influences must combine for its full exercise, and how variously determined is its growth by individual nature. It further furnishes him with wide principles or maxims, which, though of less immediate practical value than the narrower rules gained by experience, are a necessary...

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