The Science of Human Nature: A Psychology for BeginnersPyle, William Henry
Science
The Science of Human Nature: A Psychology for Beginners
Pyle, William Henry
Educational psychology; Psychology
_Attitude._ The tendency toward a particular type of response in action
or a particular idea or association in thought.
_Bond._ The connection established in the nervous system which makes a
certain response follow a certain stimulus or a certain idea follow
another idea or perception.
_Capacity._ The possibility of learning, achieving, etc.
_Color blindness._ Inability to experience certain colors, usually red
and green.
_Complementary color._ Complementary colors are those which, mixed in
the right proportion, produce gray.
_Congenital._ Inborn.
_Connection._ The nerve-path through which a stimulus produces a
response or through which one idea produces or evokes another.
_Conscious._ Having consciousness, or accompanying consciousness or
producing consciousness.
_Consciousness._ The mental states--perceptions, ideas, feelings--which
one has at any moment.
_Low level of consciousness._ Conscious processes not so clear as
others existing at the same time.
_High level of consciousness._ Conscious processes that are clear as
compared to others existing at the same time.
_Contrast._ The enhancing or strengthening of a sensation by another of
opposite quality.
_Correlation._ The relation that exists between two functions,
characteristics, or attributes that enables us, finding one, to predict
the presence of the other.
_Development._ The appearance, or growth, or strengthening of a
characteristic.
_Emotion._ The pleasure-pain aspect of experience plus sensations from
characteristic bodily reactions.
_Environment._ The objects and forces about us which affect us through
our senses.
_Environmental instincts._ Instincts which have originated, at least in
part, from the periodic changes in man's environment.
_Eugenics._ The science of race improvement through selective breeding
or proper marriages or in some cases through the prevention of marriage.
_Experience._ What we learn of the world through sensation and
perception.
_Fatigue._ Inability to work produced by work and which only rest will
cure.
_Feeble-minded._ Having important mental traits only poorly developed or
not at all.
_Feeling._ The pleasure-pain aspect of experience or of ideational
states.
_Function._ The use of a thing or process, also any mental process or
combination of processes considered as a unit.
_Genetic._ Having reference to origin and development.
_Habits._ Definite responses to definite stimuli depending upon bonds
established by use after birth.
_Heredity._ Transmission of characteristics from parent to offspring.
_Human nature._ The characteristics and tendencies which we have as
human beings, with particular reference to mind and action.
_Ideals._ Definite tendencies to act in definite ways. Ideas of definite
types of action with tendency toward the actions; ideas of definite
conditions, forms, and states together with a desire to experience or
possess them.
_Ideas._ Revived perceptions.
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