A Beginner's Psychology

Name: A Beginner's Psychology
Author: Titchener, Edward Bradford

Titchener, Edward Bradford

Psychology

Attention, common-sense view of, 91;
    description of, 91 f.;
    implies shift of vividness, 91 f., 93 f.;
    a pattern of processes, 92, 99, 109;
    psychological problem of, 93;
    development of, 93 ff., 98 f.;
    primary, and its determinants, 94 f., 101, 195;
    secondary, 95 ff., 101 f.;
    derived primary, 97 f., 102;
    two or more levels of, 99 ff., 108 f.;
    feeling in, 101 f.;
    kinæsthesis in, 101 f.;
    normal to waking life, 102 f.;
    range of visual, 103;
    range of auditory, 103 f.;
    duration of, 104 f.;
    bodily changes in secondary, 105 f.;
    ‘sensory’ and ‘intellectual,’ 106;
    nervous correlate of, 106 ff., 164, 166, 249 f.;
    proposed definitions of, 110;
    necessary to mental connection, 163 ff.;
    implies a general nervous disposition, 166;
    necessary to start of practice, 169 f.;
    in remembrance, 190;
    in recollection, 190 f.;
    in imagination, 197 ff.;
    direction of, in simple reaction, 240;
    levels of, in reaction experiment, 254;
    in thought, 262;
    in expectation, 273;
    in emotion and sentiment, 290.

  Attitudes, mental, 271 ff.;
    psychological status of, 272, 275;
    in dreams, 338.

  Attributes of sensation, 60, 67, 92;
    and types of perception, 121 ff.

  Autosuggestion, 344.

  Awareness, irrelevant to psychology, 324 ff.


  Beats, 55.

  Behaviour, as index of mind, 12 ff.;
    two types of animal, 203 f.

  Black, a contrast-effect, 61.

  Blend, see Fusion.

  Blind, psychological world of the, 130 f.

  Brain, not the ‘organ of mind,’ 10;
    evidence of its correlation with mind, 11 f.;
    responsible for sensation of grey, 59;
    associates, 149, 168;
    a complex and plastic machine, 150.

  Brain-habit, in perception and idea, 115 ff., 131;
    in perceptions of time, 123;
    in perception of distance, 129 f., 131;
    in perception of visual movement, 133 f.;
    in optical illusion, 137;
    in direct apprehension, 182 f.;
    in memory, 185;
    in imagination, 195.


  Catalepsy, 342 ff.

  Cataplexy, 344.

  Change, perception of, 132 f., 160.

  Chess, blindfold, 265.

  Chroma, 57.

  Coincidences, law of, 98.

  Cold, sensation of, 43 f., 64;
    paradoxical, 44 f.;
    in sense-feelings, 82.

  Colour, sensations of, 57;
    all simple, 57 f.;
    mixture of stimuli, 57, 59 f., 63;
    contrast of, 61;
    adaptation to, 61, 63;
    after-images of, 62;
    memory-colours, 63, 75;
    in sense-feelings, 81.

  Colour, of tones, 54, 294.

  Colour-blindness, normal, 58, 62;
    congenital, 58 f.

  Coloured hearing, 76 f.

  Comedy, 302, 305.

  Common factor, in intellectual responses, 310 f.

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A Beginner's Psychology

Titchener, Edward Bradford

Psychology

Attention, common-sense view of, 91;
    description of, 91 f.;
    implies shift of vividness, 91 f., 93 f.;
    a pattern of processes, 92, 99, 109;
    psychological problem of, 93;
    development of, 93 ff., 98 f.;
    primary, and its determinants, 94 f., 101, 195;
    secondary, 95 ff., 101 f.;
    derived primary, 97 f., 102;
    two or more levels of, 99 ff., 108 f.;
    feeling in, 101 f.;
    kinæsthesis in, 101 f.;
    normal to waking life, 102 f.;
    range of visual, 103;
    range of auditory, 103 f.;
    duration of, 104 f.;
    bodily changes in secondary, 105 f.;
    ‘sensory’ and ‘intellectual,’ 106;
    nervous correlate of, 106 ff., 164, 166, 249 f.;
    proposed definitions of, 110;
    necessary to mental connection, 163 ff.;
    implies a general nervous disposition, 166;
    necessary to start of practice, 169 f.;
    in remembrance, 190;
    in recollection, 190 f.;
    in imagination, 197 ff.;
    direction of, in simple reaction, 240;
    levels of, in reaction experiment, 254;
    in thought, 262;
    in expectation, 273;
    in emotion and sentiment, 290.

  Attitudes, mental, 271 ff.;
    psychological status of, 272, 275;
    in dreams, 338.

  Attributes of sensation, 60, 67, 92;
    and types of perception, 121 ff.

  Autosuggestion, 344.

  Awareness, irrelevant to psychology, 324 ff.


  Beats, 55.

  Behaviour, as index of mind, 12 ff.;
    two types of animal, 203 f.

  Black, a contrast-effect, 61.

  Blend, see Fusion.

  Blind, psychological world of the, 130 f.

  Brain, not the ‘organ of mind,’ 10;
    evidence of its correlation with mind, 11 f.;
    responsible for sensation of grey, 59;
    associates, 149, 168;
    a complex and plastic machine, 150.

  Brain-habit, in perception and idea, 115 ff., 131;
    in perceptions of time, 123;
    in perception of distance, 129 f., 131;
    in perception of visual movement, 133 f.;
    in optical illusion, 137;
    in direct apprehension, 182 f.;
    in memory, 185;
    in imagination, 195.


  Catalepsy, 342 ff.

  Cataplexy, 344.

  Change, perception of, 132 f., 160.

  Chess, blindfold, 265.

  Chroma, 57.

  Coincidences, law of, 98.

  Cold, sensation of, 43 f., 64;
    paradoxical, 44 f.;
    in sense-feelings, 82.

  Colour, sensations of, 57;
    all simple, 57 f.;
    mixture of stimuli, 57, 59 f., 63;
    contrast of, 61;
    adaptation to, 61, 63;
    after-images of, 62;
    memory-colours, 63, 75;
    in sense-feelings, 81.

  Colour, of tones, 54, 294.

  Colour-blindness, normal, 58, 62;
    congenital, 58 f.

  Coloured hearing, 76 f.

  Comedy, 302, 305.

  Common factor, in intellectual responses, 310 f.

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A Beginner's Psychology

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