Elementary Psychology and Education: A Text-book for High Schools, Normal Schools, Normal Institutes, and Reading Circles, and a Manual for Teachers |
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abstract activity agnosticism altruistic emotions ANALYSIS OF CHAPTER animal appetites attention author's definition beauty emotions body brain brute called capabilities to feel cause cepts cerebrum cern Characteristics child choice class-notions Comparative Psychology concepts conclusions concrete conscience conscious-percept consciousness corpus striatum cosmic emotions Define discern distinct dreams Education effort egoistic emotions endowed energies ethical emotions faculty gain Give Growth human ideals Illustrate imagination impulses individual Inductive Reasoning infer inner world instinct intellect intuitively judgment knowledge material mean memory mental acts mental phenomena mind moral Names necessary ideas necessary realities nerve-cells nerves notions noumena noumenal-intuition noumenal-perception noumenon objects optic organs Original outer world perceive percepts phantasy physical feelings physical phenomena Physiological Psychology power to feel predicate rational reason recall Reflex action relations riences self-consciousness sensations sense sense-perception sensorium soul soul-energies SUGGESTIVE STUDY-HINTS syllogism termed things thought tions truth emotions vertebrates
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