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Page vii
... MEMORY · XIX . SUGGESTION AND EXPECTATION . 177 . 193 · 203 . 217 XX . GENERAL PROBLEMS • 229 • XXI . MATERIALISM AND SPIRITUALISM IN PSYCHOLOGY . 240 XXII . THE NEW PSYCHOLOGY 247 INDEX 257 vii 1 FIGURE ILLUSTRATIONS Blind - spot ...
... MEMORY · XIX . SUGGESTION AND EXPECTATION . 177 . 193 · 203 . 217 XX . GENERAL PROBLEMS • 229 • XXI . MATERIALISM AND SPIRITUALISM IN PSYCHOLOGY . 240 XXII . THE NEW PSYCHOLOGY 247 INDEX 257 vii 1 FIGURE ILLUSTRATIONS Blind - spot ...
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... memory 175. Measurements on Symmetrical and Direct Cross- memory . · 176. Law of Forgetting Tones . PAGE 187 188 • 188 194 205 206 207 208 177. Dependence of Time - memory on Age 178. Producing a Hallucination of Warmth 215 218 179 ...
... memory 175. Measurements on Symmetrical and Direct Cross- memory . · 176. Law of Forgetting Tones . PAGE 187 188 • 188 194 205 206 207 208 177. Dependence of Time - memory on Age 178. Producing a Hallucination of Warmth 215 218 179 ...
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... memory is . Vary only one circumstance at a time . If you wish to find how strong a child's memory is at different times of the day , you should not make the morning test with words and the next with figures . There might be a ...
... memory is . Vary only one circumstance at a time . If you wish to find how strong a child's memory is at different times of the day , you should not make the morning test with words and the next with figures . There might be a ...
Page 59
... memory corrected by an actual stroke each time . Knowing when to expect the next stroke , an act of will is executed so that the movement occurs in some definite relation to the stroke , gen- erally at the same moment or just after it ...
... memory corrected by an actual stroke each time . Knowing when to expect the next stroke , an act of will is executed so that the movement occurs in some definite relation to the stroke , gen- erally at the same moment or just after it ...
Page 199
... memory of a bell- ring ; the car is prepared to hear it . Whether the matter concerns us or not , this condition of expectation forces our attention . The peacock which lived next door to De Quincey al- most maddened him by the ...
... memory of a bell- ring ; the car is prepared to hear it . Whether the matter concerns us or not , this condition of expectation forces our attention . The peacock which lived next door to De Quincey al- most maddened him by the ...
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Page 181 - ... probably never in all their lives received one genuine colour-sensation. The modern religionists of the school of Overbeck are just like people who eat slate-pencil and chalk, and assure everybody that they are nicer and purer than strawberries and plums.
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