Attention and Interest: A Study in Psychology and EducationMacmillan, 1910 - 272 páginas |
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activity Animal Intelligence apraxia arrest aspect asso association ataxia cerebral cerebrum child clearness and distinctness Cloth color connected consciousness CURVE direction Education effect efferent nerve effort example excite experience Experimental eyes facilitate fatigue feeling of strain Fingers fixation fluctuation give given field hour ideal reinforcement ideas or images images or ideas impel impressions individual innervations instinctive intensity interpolated Jour lead less Macbeth manipulation means MEMORISING ment mental motor attitude motor cell motor control motor tendencies movements mucilage Münsterberg muscle normal Note number of letters number seen object outline pause periods persist Phil pleasure pleasure-pain possible present Psych Psychology psychophysical pupil reaction realised reflex arc revived satisfaction School secondary interest selection sensorimotor sensory situation stapedius stimulation Study TABLE teacher tends tests tion Titchener total number Ueber Vasoconstriction vidual visual visual field words
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Página 192 - We will return no more" ; And all at once they sang, "Our island home Is far beyond the wave ; we will no longer roam.
Página 14 - Thou shalt not avenge, nor bear any grudge against the children of thy people, but thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself: I am the LORD.
Página 113 - Thou's met me in an evil hour; For I maun crush amang the stoure Thy slender stem: To spare thee now is past my pow'r, Thou bonnie gem. Alas ! it's no thy neebor sweet, The bonnie Lark, companion meet! Bending thee 'mang the dewy weet! Wi' spreckl'd breast, When upward-springing, blythe, to greet The purpling east.
Página 113 - mang the dewy weet ! Wi' spreckl'd breast, "When upward-springing, blythe, to greet, The purpling east. Cauld blew the bitter-biting north Upon thy early, humble birth ; Yet cheerfully thou glinted forth Amid the storm, Scarce rear'd above the parent earth Thy tender form. The flaunting flowers our gardens yield, High shelt'ring woods and wa's maun shield ; But thou, beneath the random bield O' clod or stane, Adorns the histie stibble-field Unseen, alane.
Página 113 - Low i' the dust. Such is the fate of simple bard, On life's rough ocean luckless starr'd: Unskilful he to note the card Of prudent lore, Till billows rage, and gales blow hard, And whelm him o'er! Such fate to suffering worth is giv'n, Who long with wants and woes has striv'n, By human pride or cunning driv'n To mis'ry's brink, Till wrench'd of ev'ry stay but Heav'n, He, ruin'd, sink!
Página 191 - Gleams that untravelled world whose margin fades For ever and for ever when I move. How dull it is to pause, to make an end, To rust unburnished, not to shine in use, As though to breathe were life.
Página 115 - Hath borne his faculties so meek, hath been So clear in his great office, that his virtues Will plead like angels trumpet-tongued against The deep damnation of his taking-off; And pity, like a naked new-born babe, Striding the blast, or heaven's cherubim horsed Upon the sightless couriers of the air, Shall blow the horrid deed in every eye, That tears shall drown the wind.
Página 191 - As tho' to breathe were life. Life piled on life Were all too little, and of one to me Little remains : but every hour is saved From that eternal silence, something more, A bringer of new things ; and vile it were For some three suns to store and hoard myself, And this gray spirit yearning in desire To follow knowledge, like a sinking star, Beyond the utmost bound of human thought.
Página 214 - A mite of my twelve hours' treasure, The least of thy gazes or glances, (Be they grants thou art bound to or gifts above measure) One of thy choices or one of thy chances, (Be they tasks God imposed thee or freaks at thy pleasure) — My Day, if I squander such labor or leisure, Then shame fall on Asolo, mischief on me!
Página 116 - I was rather inclined to leave Boston when I reflected that I had already made myself a little obnoxious to the governing party, and, from the arbitrary proceedings of the Assembly in my brother's case, it was likely I might, if I stayed, soon bring myself into scrapes...