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Header 2 A STUDY OF MENTAL LIFE PREFACE

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Varieties of Psychology Psychology as Related to Other Sciences The Science of Consciousness The Science of Behavior Introspection Objective Observation General Laws of Psychological Investigation.Summary and Attempt at a Definition EXERCISES REFERENCES

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The Reaction Time Experiment Reflex Action The Nerves in Reflex Action Internal Construction of the Nerves and Nerve Centers The Synapse COÖRDINATION Reactions in General EXERCISES REFERENCES

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Different Sorts of Stimuli The Motor Centers, Lower and Higher How The Brain Produces Muscular Movements Facilitation and Inhibition Super-motor Centers in the Cortex Speech Centers The Auditory Centers The Visual Centers Cortical Centers for the Other Senses Lower Sensory Centers The Cerebellum Different Levels of Reaction EXERCISES REFERENCES

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Purposive Behavior Organic States that Influence Behavior Preparation for Action Preparatory Reactions What the Preparatory Reactions Accomplish What a Tendency Is, in Terms of Nerve Action Motives EXERCISES REFERENCES

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The Source of Native Traits Reactions Appearing at Birth Must Be Native Reactions That Cannot Be Learned Must Be Native Experimental Detection of Native Reactions Is Walking Native or Acquired?Universality as a Criterion of Native Reactions Some Native Traits Are Far from Being Universal Why Acquired Traits Differ from One Individual to Another What Mental Traits Are Native?EXERCISES REFERENCES

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The Difference Between an Instinct and a Reflex An Instinct Is a Native Reaction-Tendency Fully and Partially Organized Instincts Instincts Are Not Ancestral Habits Instincts Not Necessarily Useful in the Struggle for Existence The So-called Instincts of Self-preservation and of Reproduction EXERCISES REFERENCES

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Organic States That Are Not Usually Classed as Emotions How These Organic States Differ from Regular Emotions The Organic State in Anger Glandular Responses During Emotion The Nerves Concerned in Internal Emotional Response The Emotional State as a Preparatory Reaction "Expressive Movements," Another Sort of Preparatory Reactions Do Sensations of These Various Preparatory Reactions Constitute the Conscious State of Emotion?The James-Lange Theory of the Emotions Emotion and Impulse Emotion Sometimes Generates Impulse Emotion and Instinct The Higher Emotions EXERCISES REFERENCES

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Classification Responses to Organic Needs Instinctive Responses to Other Persons The Play Instincts EXERCISES REFERENCES

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Pleasantness and Unpleasantness Are Simple Feelings Feeling-Tone of Sensations Theories of Feelings Sources of Pleasantness and Unpleasantness Primary Likes and Dislikes Other Proposed Elementary Feelings EXERCISES REFERENCES

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The Sense Organs Analysis of Sensations The Skin Senses The Sense of Taste The Sense of Smell Organic Sensation The Sense of Sight Simpler Forms of the Color Sense Visual Sensations as Related to the Stimulus Color Mixing What Are the Elementary Visual Sensations?Theories of Color Vision Adaptation Rod and Cone Vision After-Images Contrast The Sense of Hearing Comparison of Sight and Hearing Theory of Hearing Senses of Bodily Movement EXERCISES REFERENCES

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The Stimulus, or What Attracts Attention The Motor Reaction in Attention The Shifting of Attention Laws of Attention and Laws of Reaction in General Sustained Attention Distraction Doing Two Things at Once The Span of Attention Summary of the Laws of Attention Attention and Degree of Consciousness The Management of Attention Theory of Attention EXERCISES REFERENCES

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Intelligence Tests Performance Tests Group Testing Some Results of the Intelligence Tests Limitations of the Intelligence Tests The Correlation of Abilities General Factors in Intelligence Special Aptitudes Heredity of Intelligence and of Special Aptitudes Intelligence and the Brain EXERCISES REFERENCES

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Acquired Reactions Are Modified Native Reactions Acquired Tendencies Animal Learning Summary of Animal Learning Human Learning Human Compared With Animal Learning Learning by Observation The Learning of Complex Practical Performances Higher Units and Overlapping Moderate Skill Acquired in the Ordinary Day's Work Habit EXERCISES REFERENCES

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The Process of Memorizing Economy in Memorizing Whole versus part learning.Unintentional Learning Retention Recall Recognition Memory Training EXERCISES REFERENCES

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What Can Be Recalled Memory Images Limitations of Imagery The Question of Non-Sensory Recall Hallucinations Free Association Controlled Association Examples of Controlled Association EXERCISES REFERENCES

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The Law of Exercise The Law of Effect Limitations of the Law of Exercise Association by Similarity Association by Contiguity The Law of Combination I. SUBSTITUTE STIMULUS EXPLAINED BY THE LAW OF COMBINATION II. SUBSTITUTE RESPONSE EXPLAINED BY THE LAW OF COMBINATION The Law of Combination in Recall The Laws of Learning in Terms of the Neurone EXERCISES REFERENCES

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Some Definitions The Difference Between Perception and Sensation Perception and Image Perception and Motor Reaction What Sort of Response, Then, Is Perception?Practised Perception Corrected Perception Sensory Data Serving as Signs of Various Sorts of Fact The Perception of Space Esthetic Perception Social Perception Errors of Perception Illusions The Müller-Lyer Illusion EXERCISES REFERENCES

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Reasoning Culminates in Inference Varieties of Reasoning Deductive and Inductive Reasoning Psychology and Logic EXERCISES REFERENCES

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Beginnings of Imagination in the Child Preliminary Definition of Imagination Play The Play Motives Empathy Day Dreams Worry Dreams Freud's Theory of Dreams Autistic Thinking Invention and Criticism The Enjoyment of Imaginative Art The Psychology of Inventive Production Imagination Considered in General EXERCISES REFERENCES

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Voluntary and Involuntary Action Development of Voluntary Control Ideomotor Action Conflict and Decision Obstruction and Effort Thought and Action Securing Action The Influence of Suggestion EXERCISES REFERENCES

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Factors in Personality The Self Integration and Disintegration of the Personality The Unconscious, or, the Subconscious Mind Unconscious Wishes and Motives EXERCISES REFERENCES INDEX

William James in his Principles of Psychology, 1890, has a very stimulating chapter on instinct, in Vol. II, pp. 383-441.

John B. Watson, in Chapters IV and V of his Behavior, 1914, gives a good account of the instincts of animals.

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