The Elements Of Psychology

Edward L Thorndike, Edward L. Thorndike

• Publisher: Taylor & Francis
• Year: 2013
• eBook ISBN: 9781136328206
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Medicine
• Subtopic: Health Care Delivery

This is Volume XXXII of thirty-eight in a collection on General Psychology. Originally published in 1905, the aim of this book is to help students to learn the general principles of psychology. Those facts which can most profitably be made the subject matter of a course in general psychology are presented with an abundance of concrete illustrations, experiments, exercises and questions, by which the student may secure real rather than verbal conceptions and may test, apply and make permanent his knowledge.

Index

Names and Subjects

Abstract ideas, 6, 68.

Abstraction (See Analysis).

Acquired Tendencies, described, 14 f.;

in general, 184 ff.; 199 ff.;

in perception, 225 ff.;

in the connections of ideas, 239 ff.;

in connections of expression, 274 ff.;

to attend, 101 f.;

to feel satisfaction and discomfort, 315 f.

Action, 10 ff. (See also Expression, connections of).

Adaptation, 113 f.

Adjustments, in motor skill, 300.

Aesthetic feelings, 80 ff.

Affection (See Emotions,Satisfaction and Discomfort).

Afferent (See Sensory).

After-images, 57.

AIKINS, H. A., 72.

Analogy, response by, 211 ff.

Analysis, and attention, 105;

the law of, 215 ff.

Animals, mental states of, 110, 221, 320.

Apperception (See Impression, connections of and Associations of ideas).

Applications of psychology, in the case of instincts, 196 f., of the law of association, 209 f.;

of connections of impression, 230 f.;

of memory, 260 ff.;

of reasoning, 270 f.;

of action, 293 ff.;

to the arts, 325 f.;

to the personal conduct of life, 327 ff.

Assimilation, 211, 213, 276.

Association, connections of, 14;

of ideas, 17, 238 ff.;

the law of, 199 ff.;

227 f., 234, 239 f., 274 ff., 298 f., 309 ff., 315 f.

Associations of ideas, 238 ff.;

and the general law of association, 239 f.;

the law of partial activity in, 240 f.;

simultaneous and successive, 241 f.;

laws of, 242;

by similarity, 243;

by contiguity, 243;

selection among sequent ideas, 244 ff.;

individual differences in, 249 f.;

control of, 260 ff.;

and memory, 255 f.;

and purposive thinking, 264.

Associative neurones, 148 f.

Attention, the nature of, 94 ff., 98;

varieties of, 99 f.;

voluntary and involuntary, 100 f.;

native and acquired, 101 f.;

immediate and derived, 102 f.;

sensorial and intellectual, 103;

and analysis, 105;

function of, 118;

law of association in habits of, 309 ff.;

and neglect, 313 f.

Auditory images, 43, 47, 49.

Auditory sensations, 25, 29.

Automatism, 302 ff.

Axis-cylinder process (See Axone).

Axone, 132, 137.

BAIN, A., 44.

BALDWIN, J. M., 76.

BARKER, L. F., 121, 154, 155, 156, 160.

Blind spot, 177 ff.

Blood supply, the influence of on mental life, 222.

Bodily expression, of emotions, 81 f.;

of mental states in general, 111 f.

Brain (See Nervous system).

BUNGE, 154.

CAJAL, RAMON Y., 131.

CALKINS, M. W., 91.

Capacities, defined, 17;

attributes of, 191 f.;

specialization of, 192 f.;

control of, 196 f.

Cells, of nervous system (See Neurones).

Cerebrum (See Nervous system).

Choice, 87 f.

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Table of contents

• Front Cover
• Title Page
• Tables
• Title Page1
• Copyright Page
• Introduction
• Preface
• Preface1
• Preface2
• Contents
• THE SUBJECT MATTER AND PROBLEMS OF PSYCHOLOGY
• DESCRIPTIVE PSYCHOLOGY
• FEELINGS OF THINGS AND QUALITIES AS PRESENT : SENSATIONS AND PERCEPTS
• FEELINGS OF THINGS AS ABSENT: IMAGES AND MEMORIES
• FEELINGS OF FACTS : FEELINGS OF RELATIONSHIPS, MEANINGS AND JUDGMENTS
• FEELINGS OF PERSONAL CONDITIONS: EMOTIONS
• MENTAL STATES CONCERNED IN THE DIRECTION OF CONDUCT: FEELINGS OF WILLING
• GENERAL CHARACTERISTICS OF MENTAL STATES
• THE FUNCTIONS OF MENTAL STATES
• THE PHYSIOLOGICAL BASIS OF MENTAL LIFE: PHYSIOLOGICAL PSYCHOLOGY
• THE CONSTITUTION OF THE NERVOUS SYSTEM
• THE ACTION OF THE NERVOUS SYSTEM
• THE NERVOUS SYSTEM AND MENTAL STATES
• DYNAMIC PSYCHOLOGY
• ORIGINAL TENDENCIES TO CONNECTIONS
• THE LAW OF ASSOCIATION
• THE LAW OF DISSOCIATION OR ANALYSIS
• THE CONNECTIONS BETWEEN SENSE STIMULI AND MENTAL STATES: CONNECTIONS OF IMPRESSION
• THE CONNECTIONS BETWEEN ONE MENTAL STATE AND ANOTHER
• THE CONNECTIONS BETWEEN ONE MENTAL STATE AND ANOTHER (Continued)
• THE CONNECTIONS BETWEEN MENTAL STATES AND ACTS : CONNECTIONS OF EXPRESSION
• MOVEMENTS
• SELECTIVE PROCESSES
• THE RELATIONS OF PSYCHOLOGY
• TOPICS FOR SPECIAL STUDY
• INDEX OF ILLUSTRATIONS
• INDEX OF Experiments
• INDEX OF NAMES AND SUBJECTS
• ENDNOTES