Journal of Abnormal Psychology and Social Psychology, Volumen18

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American Psychological Association, 1924
 

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Página 177 - Chapter one considers the wishes, deemed by the author to be of four types : the desire for new experience, the desire for security, the desire for response, and the desire for recognition.
Página 262 - Magic, since both assume that things act on each other at a distance through a secret sympathy, the impulse being transmitted from one to the other by means of what we may conceive as a...
Página 288 - The individual tends to repeat and learn quickly those reactions which are accompanied or followed by a satisfying state of affairs. The individual tends not to repeat or learn quickly those reactions which are accompanied or followed by an annoying state of affairs
Página 341 - Introversion means a turning inwards of the libido whereby a negative relation of subject to object is expressed. Interest does not move towards the object, but recedes towards the subject. Everyone whose attitude is introverted thinks, feels, and acts in a way that clearly demonstrates that the subject is the chief factor of motivation while the object at most receives only a secondary value.
Página 152 - We must therefore conclude, that the bees, although they act geometrically, understand neither the rules nor the principles of the arts which they practise so skilfully, and that the geometry is not in the bee, but in the great' Geometrician who made the bee, and made all things in number, weight and measure*.
Página 259 - ... malady. Thus if he happened to think of a person, he was actually confronted with this person as if he had conjured him up; if he inquired suddenly about the state of health of an acquaintance whom he had long missed he was sure to hear that this acquaintance had just died, so that he could believe that the deceased had drawn his attention to himself by telepathic means; if he uttered a...
Página 233 - The hand is made less steady, motor coordinations less accurate and rapid, rate of tapping is reduced, the processes of color naming, naming opposites, and adding are slowed down, and the rate of substitution learning is less rapid. In pulse rate, which must be considered separately from these mental and motor tests, the effect of alcohol is to produce a positive acceleration. ^ "In all cases the effect varies directly with the size of the dose. In the association processes the effect of the smaller...
Página 160 - At some place on the globe, at some time, every kind of practice seems to have been tolerated or even praised. How is the tremendous diversity of institutions (including moral codes) to be accounted for? The native stock of instincts is practically the same everywhere. Exaggerate as much as we like the native differences of Patagonians and Greeks, Sioux Indians and Hindoos, Bushmen and Chinese, their original...
Página 196 - Otherwise we are obliged to fall back upon such generalizations as the "group mind," or the "instinct of the herd." Neither of these hypotheses helps us toward the solution of our problem. Social psychology would do well to give them up. The concept of the group-mind would seem to be at best only an analogy. If we try to conceive of any individual as distinct from the group in which he lives, we notice that there are certain similarities between his behavior and that of the other members of his group....
Página 294 - DIRECTORY OF AMERICAN PSYCHOLOGICAL PERIODICALS American Journal of Psychology— Ithaca, NY ; Morrill Hall. Subscription $6.50. 600 pages annually. Edited by EB Titchener. Quarterly. General and experimental psychology. Founded 1887. Pedagogical Seminary— Worcester, Mass.: 950 Main Street.

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