The Principles of Psychology, Volume 1 (of 2)

by William James

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Contents

  1. Preface
  2. The Scope of Psychology
  3. The Functions of the Brain
  4. The Frog's Nerve-Centres
  5. General Notion of Hemispheres
  6. The Education of the Hemispheres
  7. The Phrenological Conception
  8. The Localization of Functions in the Hemispheres
  9. Sight
  10. Hearing
  11. Smell
  12. Touch
  13. Man's Consciousness Limited to the Hemispheres
  14. The Restitution of Function
  15. Final Correction of the Meynert Scheme
  16. Conclusion
  17. On Some General Conditions of Brain-Activity
  18. The Summation of Stimuli
  19. Reaction-Time
  20. Cerebral Blood-Supply
  21. Cerebral Thermometry
  22. Phosphorus and Thought
  23. Habit
  24. The Automaton-Theory
  25. Reasons for the Theory
  26. Reasons Against the Theory
  27. The Mind-Stuff Theory
  28. Evolutionary Psychology Demands a Mind-Dust
  29. Some Alleged Proofs That Mind-Dust Exists
  30. Insufficiency of These Proofs
  31. Self-Compounding of Mental Facts Is Inadmissible
  32. Can States of Mind Be Unconscious?
  33. Do Unconscious Mental States Exist?
  34. Difficulty of Stating the Connection Between Mind and Brain
  35. The Material-Monad Theory
  36. The Soul-Theory
  37. The Methods and Snares of Psychology
  38. Psychology Is a Natural Science
  39. The Methods of Investigation
  40. The Sources of Error in Psychology
  41. Time-Relations
  42. Are we ever wholly unconscious?
  43. 'Unconsciousness' in Hysterics
  44. Relations of Consciousness to Space
  45. The Relations of Minds to Other Objects
  46. The Stream of Thought
  47. Five Characters in Thought
  48. 1) Thought tends to Personal Form
  49. 2) Thought is in Constant Change
  50. 3) Within each personal consciousness, thought is sensibly continuous
  51. Feelings of Tendency
  52. 4. Human thought appears to deal with objects independent of itself; that is, it is cognitive, or possesses the function of knowing
  53. 5) It is always interested more in one part of its object than in another, and welcomes and rejects, or chooses, all the while it thinks
  54. The Empirical Self or Me
  55. 2. Self-Feeling
  56. 3. Self-Seeking and Self-Preservation
  57. Rivalry and Conflict of the Different Selves
  58. What Self Is Loved in 'Self-Love'?
  59. The Pure Ego
  60. The Sense of Personal Identity
  61. The Theory of the Soul
  62. The Associationist Theory
  63. The Transcendentalist Theory
  64. Certain vicissitudes in the me demand our notice
  65. The Mutations of the Self
  66. Summary
  67. Attention
  68. To How Many Things Can We Attend at Once?
  69. The Varieties of Attention
  70. The Effects of Attention
  71. The Intimate Nature of the Attentive Process
  72. Is Voluntary Attention a Resultant or a Force?
  73. Inattention
  74. The Sense of Sameness
  75. Conception Defined
  76. Conceptions Are Unchangeable
  77. 'Abstract' Ideas
  78. Universals
  79. Discrimination and Comparison
  80. The Principle of Mediate Comparison
  81. Are All Differences Differences of Composition?
  82. The Conditions of Discrimination
  83. The Process of Analysis
  84. The Process of Abstraction
  85. The Improvement of Discrimination by Practice
  86. Practical Interests Limit Discrimination
  87. Reaction-Time After Discrimination
  88. The Perception of Likeness
  89. The Magnitude of Differences
  90. The Measure of Discriminative Sensibility
  91. Theoretic Interpretation of Weber's Law
  92. Weber's law is probably purely physiological
  93. Association
  94. The Rapidity of Association
  95. The Law of Contiguity
  96. The Elementary Law of Association
  97. Impartial Redintegration
  98. Ordinary or Mixed Association
  99. Association by Similarity
  100. Association in Voluntary Thought
  101. Similarity No Elementary Law
  102. The History of Opinion Concerning Association
  103. The Perception of Time
  104. The Sensible Present Has Duration
  105. Accuracy of Our Estimate of Short Durations
  106. We Have No Sense for Empty Time
  107. The Feeling of Past Time Is a Present Feeling
  108. To What Cerebral Process Is the Sense of Time Due?
  109. Memory
  110. Primary Memory
  111. Analysis of the Phenomenon of Memory
  112. Memory's Causes
  113. The Conditions of Goodness in Memory
  114. One's Native Retentiveness Is Unchangeable
  115. Exact Measurements of Memory
  116. Forgetting

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