The Springs of Human Action: A Psychological Study of the Sources, Mechanism, and Principles of Motivation in Human BehaviorD. Appleton and Company, 1927 - 501 pàgines |
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The Springs of Human Action: A Psychological Study of the Sources, Mechanism ... Mehran Kafafian Thomson Visualització completa - 1927 |
The Springs of Human Action: A Psychological Study of the Sources, Mechanism ... Mehran Kafafian Thomson Visualització completa - 1927 |
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abulia acquired action activity æsthetic altruism appeal appetites aroused attention attitude autonomic system autosuggestion become behavior chapter character complex compound conduct conscious coördination desire drives Dynamic Psychology effective elements Ellwood emotions experience fact factors fear feeling glands gregarious habits hate hence hypnosis Ibid idea ideal imitation important impulse impulsive drives individual inhibit innate interest Jastrow Journal of Psychology master motive McDougall means mechanism ment mental mind moral motive force native ness object one's organism pain person phase physical Pierre Janet Platonic love play pleasure prejudice primary psychic Psychoanalysis Psychological hedonism psychophysical reactions reflex reflex action regarded religion response says scious self-assertion self-regarding sentiments sensation sense significant situation social pressure Social Psychology source of motivation specific stimulus stincts subconscious suggestion sympathy temperament tendency theory thing tion tivation tive tropism true uncon unconscious Unconscious Mind urge wants whole Woodworth
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Pàgina 65 - Take away these instinctive dispositions with their powerful impulses, and the organism would become incapable of activity of any kind ; it would lie inert and motionless like a wonderful clockwork whose mainspring had been removed or a steam engine whose fires had been drawn.
Pàgina 120 - It is better to be a human being dissatisfied than a pig satisfied; better to be Socrates dissatisfied than a fool satisfied.
Pàgina 94 - Tis the delight of children to hear tales they shiver at, and the vice of old age to abound in strange stories of times past. We come into the world wondering at everything, and when our wonder about common things is over, we seek something new to wonder at.
Pàgina 287 - If a bottle of brandy stood at one hand and the pit of hell yawned at the other, and I were convinced that I should be pushed in as sure as I took one glass, I could not refrain.
Pàgina 59 - Habits once formed perpetuate themselves, by acting unremittingly upon the native stock of activities. They stimulate, inhibit, intensify, weaken, select, concentrate and organize the latter into their own likeness. They create out of the formless void of impulses a world made in their own image. Man is a creature of habit, not of reason nor yet of instinct.
Pàgina 187 - ... and a lady-killer, as well as a philosopher; a philanthropist, statesman, warrior, and African explorer, as well as a tone-poet, and saint.
Pàgina 323 - By intuition is meant the kind of intellectual sympathy by which one places oneself within an object in order to coincide with what is unique in it and consequently inexpressible.
Pàgina 347 - Strong joy and grief depend upon the treatment this rudimentary social self receives. In the case of M. I noticed as early as the fourth month a "hurt" way of crying which seemed to indicate a sense of personal slight. It was quite different from the cry of pain or that of anger, but seemed about the same as the cry of fright. The slightest tone of reproof would produce it. On the other hand, if people took notice and laughed and encouraged, she was hilarious. At about fifteen months old she had...
Pàgina 287 - When strongly urged, by one of his friends, to leave off drinking, he said, ' Were a keg of rum in one corner of a room, and were a cannon constantly discharging balls between me and it, 1 could not refrain from passing before that cannon in order to get at the rum.
Pàgina 59 - All habits are demands for certain kinds of activity; and they constitute the self. In any intelligible sense of the word will, -they are will. They form our effective desires and they furnish us with our working capacities.