A Beginner's Psychology

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

Titchener, Edward Bradford

Psychology

Smell, sensations of, 48 ff.;
    blends of, with taste and touch, 48;
    blends of odorous qualities, 49;
    disused but not degenerate, 50 f.;
    arithmetic by, 51;
    adaptation to, 51, 63;
    contrast of, 63;
    mixture of stimuli, 63;
    comparison of, with sight, 63;
    in tensity of, falls under Weber’s law, 68;
    in sense-feelings, 81.

  Social sentiments, 298 ff.;
    and empathy, 301.

  Somnambulism, 342.

  Space, psychological problem of, 124 f.;
    short-cuts to meaning of, 123, 127;
    perceptions of, show conjunction of mental processes, 159 f.

  State of consciousness, a misleading phrase, 21.

  Stereoscope, 128.

  Stimulus, a technical term in experimental psychology, 24;
    the ‘biological’ stimuli to attention, 95, 165;
    ‘situational’ stimuli, 165 f.

  Strain, sensation of, 46.

  Strangeness, feeling of, 194 f.;
    derivation of, 195;
    makes an idea into an idea of imagination, 195.

  Stroboscope, 133.

  Style, literary, sentiment of, 294 ff.

  Subconsciousness, definition of, 326;
    an explanatory concept, 326;
    unnecessary and dangerous, 327 f.;
    but has proved useful in practice, 328.

  Subject-matter of psychology, 5 ff., 113 f., 326.

  Suggestion, 213 f., 242, 252, 348 f.;
    in volitional action, 250 f.  hypnotic, 342 f., 348 f.;
    post-hypnotic or terminal, 345 f.;
    perceptive, 348 f.

  Syllables, meaningless, experimental use of, 151, 152 ff., 155, 163 f.

  Sympathy, as basis of moral or social sentiment, 301.

  Synæsthesia, 76 f., 78.

  Synthesis, a test of analysis, 16 f.


  Taste, sensations of, 48 f.;
    blend of sweet and salt, 49;
    blends of taste, smell, and touch, 48;
    in sense-feelings, 81;
    perceptions of, 122;
    and expression of emotion, 223 f.

  Temperament, 226 f., 304.

  Temperature, sensations of, 43 ff.

  Tendencies, associative, 150, 327;
    studied by use of meaningless syllables, 151, 152;
    by use of meaningful material, 152, 154 f., 156 ff.;
    conditions of their establishment, 152 ff., 155 f., 164 f.;
    decay of, 156 f., 266 f.;
    interference of, 157 f.;
    convergence of, 158 f., 162, 197, 199;
    in paramnesia, 187;
    and mnemonics, 193 f.;
    and typical images, 266 f.;
    in dreams, 338 f.

  Tendencies, determining, 212, 327;
    their relation to suggestion, 213 f.;
    in action, 234 f., 246 ff., 258;
    studied by reaction method, 253;
    in emotion, 216;
    in thought, 276 ff.;
    intellectual ‘common factor,’ 310 f.;
    in dreams, 338 f.

  Tendencies, instinctive, to forms of ‘thing’ and ‘space,’ 115, 124,
        129, 205, 276;
    to express and communicate, 135, 268;
    list of human, 205 ff.;
    to dual division, 205, 211, 276, 278;
    in sentiment, 300 ff.;
    to personalisation, 205, 323;
    in sleep, 335.

  Tendencies, nervous, shape perception and idea, 115 ff., 124 f.;
    see Nerve-forces

  Terminal inhibition, 157 f.;
    suggestion, 345 f.

  Tests, mental, 310.

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A Beginner's Psychology

Titchener, Edward Bradford

Psychology

Smell, sensations of, 48 ff.;
    blends of, with taste and touch, 48;
    blends of odorous qualities, 49;
    disused but not degenerate, 50 f.;
    arithmetic by, 51;
    adaptation to, 51, 63;
    contrast of, 63;
    mixture of stimuli, 63;
    comparison of, with sight, 63;
    in tensity of, falls under Weber’s law, 68;
    in sense-feelings, 81.

  Social sentiments, 298 ff.;
    and empathy, 301.

  Somnambulism, 342.

  Space, psychological problem of, 124 f.;
    short-cuts to meaning of, 123, 127;
    perceptions of, show conjunction of mental processes, 159 f.

  State of consciousness, a misleading phrase, 21.

  Stereoscope, 128.

  Stimulus, a technical term in experimental psychology, 24;
    the ‘biological’ stimuli to attention, 95, 165;
    ‘situational’ stimuli, 165 f.

  Strain, sensation of, 46.

  Strangeness, feeling of, 194 f.;
    derivation of, 195;
    makes an idea into an idea of imagination, 195.

  Stroboscope, 133.

  Style, literary, sentiment of, 294 ff.

  Subconsciousness, definition of, 326;
    an explanatory concept, 326;
    unnecessary and dangerous, 327 f.;
    but has proved useful in practice, 328.

  Subject-matter of psychology, 5 ff., 113 f., 326.

  Suggestion, 213 f., 242, 252, 348 f.;
    in volitional action, 250 f.  hypnotic, 342 f., 348 f.;
    post-hypnotic or terminal, 345 f.;
    perceptive, 348 f.

  Syllables, meaningless, experimental use of, 151, 152 ff., 155, 163 f.

  Sympathy, as basis of moral or social sentiment, 301.

  Synæsthesia, 76 f., 78.

  Synthesis, a test of analysis, 16 f.


  Taste, sensations of, 48 f.;
    blend of sweet and salt, 49;
    blends of taste, smell, and touch, 48;
    in sense-feelings, 81;
    perceptions of, 122;
    and expression of emotion, 223 f.

  Temperament, 226 f., 304.

  Temperature, sensations of, 43 ff.

  Tendencies, associative, 150, 327;
    studied by use of meaningless syllables, 151, 152;
    by use of meaningful material, 152, 154 f., 156 ff.;
    conditions of their establishment, 152 ff., 155 f., 164 f.;
    decay of, 156 f., 266 f.;
    interference of, 157 f.;
    convergence of, 158 f., 162, 197, 199;
    in paramnesia, 187;
    and mnemonics, 193 f.;
    and typical images, 266 f.;
    in dreams, 338 f.

  Tendencies, determining, 212, 327;
    their relation to suggestion, 213 f.;
    in action, 234 f., 246 ff., 258;
    studied by reaction method, 253;
    in emotion, 216;
    in thought, 276 ff.;
    intellectual ‘common factor,’ 310 f.;
    in dreams, 338 f.

  Tendencies, instinctive, to forms of ‘thing’ and ‘space,’ 115, 124,
        129, 205, 276;
    to express and communicate, 135, 268;
    list of human, 205 ff.;
    to dual division, 205, 211, 276, 278;
    in sentiment, 300 ff.;
    to personalisation, 205, 323;
    in sleep, 335.

  Tendencies, nervous, shape perception and idea, 115 ff., 124 f.;
    see Nerve-forces

  Terminal inhibition, 157 f.;
    suggestion, 345 f.

  Tests, mental, 310.

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