An Introduction to Comparative Psychology (Paperback)


This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1904 Excerpt: ... most part through the intervention of the automatic mechanism. It is also well known that the functional activity of any part is enhanced, within normal and natural limits, by increased blood supply. And though as a rule, in most people, the regulation of the calibre of the blood capillaries is not in the least degree subject to conscious control, it is at least physiologically conceivable that there are in the cerebral cortex control centres for the vascular supply of the sensory centres within the hemispheres, and that through them the activity of the centres may be increased, and the ideas therein rendered more vivid and lasting. There is at present no definite evidence that this is the case. Is there, then, any control of the cerebral hemispheres over the activity of their own sensory centres? We shall do well, perhaps, to regard the matter from the psychical side, and in doing so we must bear in mind how states of consciousness are determined. Let us represent the states of consciousness in three successive moments, thus: --Then, supposing that A b ( &c. represents the total psychical content of the wave of consciousness in the first moment, this represents also the me of empirical psychology in that moment. But A b ( &c. of moment i determines (subject to the qualifications given in a previous chapter, p. 82) C b d &c. of moment 2, which constitutes the empirical me of that moment. Similarly, C b d &c. of moment 2 determines D c m &c. of moment 3; and so on throughout any given series of moments of consciousness. In other words, it is the empirical / which constantly determines the sequence of ideas. That same psychical /, which takes effect through the control centres on the motor activities of the body, takes effect also through ...

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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1904 Excerpt: ... most part through the intervention of the automatic mechanism. It is also well known that the functional activity of any part is enhanced, within normal and natural limits, by increased blood supply. And though as a rule, in most people, the regulation of the calibre of the blood capillaries is not in the least degree subject to conscious control, it is at least physiologically conceivable that there are in the cerebral cortex control centres for the vascular supply of the sensory centres within the hemispheres, and that through them the activity of the centres may be increased, and the ideas therein rendered more vivid and lasting. There is at present no definite evidence that this is the case. Is there, then, any control of the cerebral hemispheres over the activity of their own sensory centres? We shall do well, perhaps, to regard the matter from the psychical side, and in doing so we must bear in mind how states of consciousness are determined. Let us represent the states of consciousness in three successive moments, thus: --Then, supposing that A b ( &c. represents the total psychical content of the wave of consciousness in the first moment, this represents also the me of empirical psychology in that moment. But A b ( &c. of moment i determines (subject to the qualifications given in a previous chapter, p. 82) C b d &c. of moment 2, which constitutes the empirical me of that moment. Similarly, C b d &c. of moment 2 determines D c m &c. of moment 3; and so on throughout any given series of moments of consciousness. In other words, it is the empirical / which constantly determines the sequence of ideas. That same psychical /, which takes effect through the control centres on the motor activities of the body, takes effect also through ...

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Rarebooksclub.com

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United States

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May 2012

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May 2012

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246 x 189 x 6mm (L x W x T)

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Paperback - Trade

Pages

118

ISBN-13

978-1-4432-1818-4

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9781443218184

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1-4432-1818-9



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