Category: Psychiatry/Psychology
In other volumes of this series we have considered the operations of the human mind known as Will, Memory, etc. We now approach the consideration of those mental activities which are concerned with the phenomena of _thought_--those activities which we generally speak of as the...
In the preceding chapters we have seen that in the group of mental processes involved in the general process of Understanding, there are several stages or steps, three of which...
10. CHAPTER X.We have seen that Sensation is translated or interpreted into Perception; and that from the Percepts so created we may "draw off," or separate, various qualities, attributes and...
14. CHAPTER XIV.From the standpoint of the old psychology, a chapter bearing the above title would be considered quite out of place in a book on Thought-Culture, the Imagination being considere...
6. CHAPTER VI.In preceding chapters we have seen that in the phase of mental activity in which the Intellect is concerned, the processes of which are known as "Thought" in the narrower sense...
12. CHAPTER XII.As we have seen, a Judgment is obtained by comparing two objects of thought according to their agreement or difference. The next higher step, that of logical Reasoning, consists...
9. CHAPTER IX.Having formed general ideas, or Concepts, it is important that we associate them with other general ideas. In order to fully _understand_ a general idea we must know its associa...
1. CHAPTER I.In other volumes of this series we have considered the operations of the human mind known as Will, Memory, etc. We now approach the consideration of those mental activities whic...
4. CHAPTER IV.I. The brain centres of thought may be developed by exercise. While we do not assert that the brain and the mind are identical, it is nevertheless a scientific truth that "the b...
5. CHAPTER V.Attention is not a faculty of the mind in the same sense as perception, abstraction, judgment, etc., but is rather in the nature of an act of will concerned in the focusing of t...
8. CHAPTER VIII.As we have seen, the first stage or step in the process of Thought is that called Perception, which we have considered in the preceding chapter. Perception, as we have seen, is...
7. CHAPTER VII.Sensation and Perception, as considered in the preceding chapter, are what are called by psychologists "Processes of Presentation." By Presentation is meant the direct offering...
3. CHAPTER III.We have seen that the Mind is that something within us which Thinks, Feels and Wills. There are various phases of these three forms of activity. These phases have often been cal...
2. CHAPTER II.It was formerly considered necessary for all books on the subject of thought to begin by a recital of the metaphysical conceptions regarding the nature and "thingness" of Mind....
11. CHAPTER XI.We have seen that in the several mental processes which are grouped together under the general head of Understanding, the stage or step of Abstraction is first; following which...