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
_Images._ Revived sensations, simpler than ideas.
_Imitation._ Acting as we see others act.
_Impulse._ Tendency to action.
_Individualistic instincts._ Those instincts which more immediately
serve individual survival.
_Individual differences._ The mental and physical differences between
people.
_Inherited nature._ Those aspects of one's nature due directly to
heredity.
_Instincts._ Definite responses produced by definite stimuli through
hereditary connections in the nervous system.
_Intellectual habits._ Definite fixed connections between ideas;
definite ways of meeting typical thought situations.
_Intensity._ The amount or strength of a sensation or image, how far it
is from nothing.
_Interest._ The aspect given to experience or thinking by attention and
pleasure.
_Learning._ Establishing new bonds or connections in the nervous system;
acquiring habits; gaining knowledge.
_Memory._ The retention of experience; retained and reproduced
experience.
_Mental set._ Mental attitude or disposition.
_Mind._ The sum total of one's conscious states from birth to death.
_Nerve-path._ The route traversed by a nerve-stimulus or excitation.
_Original nature._ All those aspects of mind and body directly
inherited.
_Perceive._ To be aware of a thing through sensation.
_Perception._ Awareness of a thing through sensation or a fusion of
sensations.
_Plasticity._ Modifiability, making easy the formation of new bonds or
nerve-connections.
_Presupposition._ A theory or hypothesis on which an argument or a
system of arguments or principles is based.
_Primary._ First, original, elementary, perceptive experience as
distinguished from ideational experience.
_Reaction._ The action immediately following a stimulus and produced by
it.
_Reasoning._ Thinking to a purpose; trying to meet a new situation.
_Reflex._ A very simple act brought about by a stimulus through an
hereditary nerve-path.
_Response._ The act following a stimulus and produced by it.
_Retention._ Memory; modification of the nervous system making possible
the revival of experience.
_Science._ Knowledge classified and systematized.
_Sensation._ Primary experience; consciousness directly due to the
stimulation of a sense organ.
_Sense._ To sense is to have sensation, to perceive. A sense is a sense
organ or the ability to have sensation through a sense organ.
_Sense organ._ A modified nerve-end with accompanying apparatus or
mechanism making possible a certain form of stimulation.
_Sensitive._ Capable of giving rise to sensation, or transmitting a
nerve-current.
_Sensitivity._ Property of, or capacity for being sensitive.
_Sensory._ Relating to a sense organ or to sensation.
_Situation._ The total environmental influences of any one moment.
_Socialistic instincts._ The instincts related more directly to the
survival of a social group.
_Stimulation._ The setting up of a nerve process in a sense organ or in
a nerve tract.
_Stimulus._ That which produces stimulation.
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