The original nature of manTeachers College, Columbia University, 1913 |
Términos y frases comunes
acquired action activity affairs anger animal Animal Intelligence annoyers annoying arouse behavior-series bodily bonds brain capacities CHAPTER child conduction unit connections coöperating curiosity doctrine EDUCATIONAL PSYCHOLOGY elements emotion excited exercise and effect experience expression fact fear feel fish stage germ plasm germs habits human nature hunting idea imitation impulse individual infant instincts interest inventory James later laugh laughter law of effect learning less mammals man's original nature manipulation means ment mental modified movements nections nervous system neurones object observed one's ontogeny organism original tendencies ovum pain Paramecium parents person physiological play present primate primitive probably produce protozoa provoke Psychology question reactions recapitulation theory receiving ends result satisfaction satisfyingness seems sense sensory sensory neurones situations and responses smile social sort sound species sponses Stanley Hall stimulus submission synapse tendencies to respond theory things tion unlearned tendencies unready
Pasajes populares
Página 262 - In all pedagogy the great thing is to strike the iron while hot, and to seize the wave of the pupil's interest in each successive subject before its ebb has come, so that knowledge ~^ may be got and a habit of skill acquired — a headway of interest, in short, secured, on which afterward the individual may float.
Página 78 - Disguise fair nature with hard-favour'd rage ; Then lend the eye a terrible aspect ; Let it pry through the portage of the head Like the brass cannon ; let the brow o'erwhelm it As fearfully as doth a galled rock O'erhang and jutty his confounded base, Swill'd with the wild and wasteful ocean. Now set the teeth and stretch the nostril wide, Hold hard the breath and bend up every spirit To his full height.
Página 77 - Once more unto the breach, dear friends, once more, Or close the wall up with our English dead! In peace there's nothing so becomes a man As modest stillness and humility, But when the blast of war blows in our ears, Then imitate the action of the tiger, Stiffen the sinews, conjure up the blood, Disguise fair nature with hard-favoured rage.
Página 184 - Try to feel as if you were crooking your finger, whilst keeping it straight. In a minute it will fairly tingle with the imaginary change of position ; yet it will not sensibly move, because its not really moving is also a part of what you have in mind. Drop this idea, think of the movement purely and simply, with all brakes off ; and, presto ! it takes place with no effort at all.
Página 134 - When put into the box the cat would show evident signs of discomfort and of an impulse to escape from confinement. It tries to squeeze through any opening; it claws and bites at the bars or wire; it thrusts its paws out through any opening and claws at everything it reaches; it continues its efforts when it strikes anything loose and shaky; it may claw at things within the box.
Página 164 - I may therefore conclude, that the passion of laughter is nothing else but sudden glory arising from some sudden conception of some eminency in ourselves, by comparison with the infirmity of others, or with our own formerly...
Página 123 - By a satisfying state of affairs is meant one which the animal does nothing to avoid, often doing such things as attain and preserve it. By a discomforting or annoying state of affairs is meant one which the animal commonly avoids and abandons.
Página 4 - The behavior of man in the family, in business, in the state, in religion and in every other affair of life is rooted in his unlearned, original equipment of instincts and capacities.
Página 2 - Any man possesses at the very start of his life — that is, at the moment when the ovum and spermatozoon which are to produce him have united — numerous well-defined tendencies to future behavior. Between the situations which he will meet and the responses which he will make to them, pre-formed bonds exist.
Página 262 - If a boy grows up alone at the age of games and sports, and learns neither to play ball, nor row, nor sail, nor ride, nor skate, nor fish, nor shoot; probably he will be sedentary to the end of his days; and, though the best of opportunities be afforded him for learning these things later, it is a hundred to one but he will pass them by and shrink back from the effort of taking those necessary first steps the prospect of which, at an earlier age, would have filled him with eager delight. The sexual...