A Beginner's Psychology

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

Titchener, Edward Bradford

Psychology

Kinæsthetic sensations, 45 ff.;
    meaning of term, 46;
    blend with cutaneous sensations, 47 f.;
    play a large part in perception, 65;
    fall under Weber’s law, 68, 135;
    enter into sense-feelings, 81 f., 319;
    in attention, 101 f.;
    as vehicle of meaning, 119 f., 140;
    in visual perception of distance, 127 ff.;
    empathic, in optical illusion, 137 f.;
    imitative, in memory, 190 ff., 200;
    empathic, in imagination, 198;
    in motor reaction, 241;
    in expectation, 273.

  Knowledge, problem of, foreign to psychology, 324 ff.


  Language, serves practical needs, 36, 313, 321;
    relation of, to thought, 266 ff.;
    spoken, originally gesture, 269 f.;
    development of, 270;
    unsafe guide to psychology of sentiment, 297;
    embodies a theory of the self, 313, 316, 321 ff.;
    disadvantages of, for science, 36, 321 ff.;
    an unreliable index of mental process, 323.

  Learning, 150 f., 152, 154 f.;
    implies attention, 163 ff.;
    importance of psychological situation for, 163 f., 165 f.;
    and mnemonics, 193 f.

  Light, sensations of, 56 f.;
    all lights psychologically simple, 57;
    contrast of, 61, 63;
    adaptation to, 61;
    after-images of, 62, 133;
    intensity of, falls under Weber’s law, 68;
    in sense-feelings, 81.


  Man, inner, of common sense, 7;
    ‘man left in,’ of psychology, 9, 10 f., 17 f., 19, 307.

  Marriage by proxy, of ideas, 166 f., 185.

  Matter, 9.

  Meaning, not a scientific term, 4, 26, 325;
    may be stripped from process, 26 f.;
    added to process, 27;
    disjoined from process in time, 27 f.;
    different, may attach to same process, 28 f.;
    same, may attach to different processes, 29;
    not covariant with process, 29 f.;
    of touch-blends, 47 f.;
    of organic complexes, 65;
    does not inhere in mental elements, 90;
    not to be confused with sensory vividness, 93;
    of perception and idea, 113, 117 ff., 123, 127;
    psychologically regarded, is context, 118 f.;
    carried by kinæsthesis and organic sensations, 119 f., 140;
    older than free image, 120;
    carried physiologically, 120 f., 129 f., 181, 316;
    in perceptions of time, 123;
    in perceptions of space, 123, 127, 129 f., 133 f.;
    in doctrine of association, 147 f., 149, 162, 163 f., 168;
    and memory-idea, 185 f., 197;
    of words, 150, 164, 269 f.;
    in verbal image, 271;
    in mental attitudes, 272;
    of self, 315, 318 f.

  Melody, perception of, 134 f.

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A Beginner's PsychologyTitchener, Edward Bradford

Science

A Beginner's Psychology

Titchener, Edward Bradford

Psychology

Kinæsthetic sensations, 45 ff.;
    meaning of term, 46;
    blend with cutaneous sensations, 47 f.;
    play a large part in perception, 65;
    fall under Weber’s law, 68, 135;
    enter into sense-feelings, 81 f., 319;
    in attention, 101 f.;
    as vehicle of meaning, 119 f., 140;
    in visual perception of distance, 127 ff.;
    empathic, in optical illusion, 137 f.;
    imitative, in memory, 190 ff., 200;
    empathic, in imagination, 198;
    in motor reaction, 241;
    in expectation, 273.

  Knowledge, problem of, foreign to psychology, 324 ff.


  Language, serves practical needs, 36, 313, 321;
    relation of, to thought, 266 ff.;
    spoken, originally gesture, 269 f.;
    development of, 270;
    unsafe guide to psychology of sentiment, 297;
    embodies a theory of the self, 313, 316, 321 ff.;
    disadvantages of, for science, 36, 321 ff.;
    an unreliable index of mental process, 323.

  Learning, 150 f., 152, 154 f.;
    implies attention, 163 ff.;
    importance of psychological situation for, 163 f., 165 f.;
    and mnemonics, 193 f.

  Light, sensations of, 56 f.;
    all lights psychologically simple, 57;
    contrast of, 61, 63;
    adaptation to, 61;
    after-images of, 62, 133;
    intensity of, falls under Weber’s law, 68;
    in sense-feelings, 81.


  Man, inner, of common sense, 7;
    ‘man left in,’ of psychology, 9, 10 f., 17 f., 19, 307.

  Marriage by proxy, of ideas, 166 f., 185.

  Matter, 9.

  Meaning, not a scientific term, 4, 26, 325;
    may be stripped from process, 26 f.;
    added to process, 27;
    disjoined from process in time, 27 f.;
    different, may attach to same process, 28 f.;
    same, may attach to different processes, 29;
    not covariant with process, 29 f.;
    of touch-blends, 47 f.;
    of organic complexes, 65;
    does not inhere in mental elements, 90;
    not to be confused with sensory vividness, 93;
    of perception and idea, 113, 117 ff., 123, 127;
    psychologically regarded, is context, 118 f.;
    carried by kinæsthesis and organic sensations, 119 f., 140;
    older than free image, 120;
    carried physiologically, 120 f., 129 f., 181, 316;
    in perceptions of time, 123;
    in perceptions of space, 123, 127, 129 f., 133 f.;
    in doctrine of association, 147 f., 149, 162, 163 f., 168;
    and memory-idea, 185 f., 197;
    of words, 150, 164, 269 f.;
    in verbal image, 271;
    in mental attitudes, 272;
    of self, 315, 318 f.

  Melody, perception of, 134 f.

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A Beginner's Psychology

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