Psychology : briefer course / by William James.

  • James, William, 1842-1910.
Date:
1892
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Credit: Psychology : briefer course / by William James. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    CONTENTS. CHAPTER I. Tntkoductory 1 Psychology defined ; psychology as a natural science, its data, 1. The human mind and its environment, 3. The pos- tulate that all consciousness has cerebral activity for Its condi- tion, 5. CHAPTER II. Sensation in General 9 Incoming nerve-currents, 9. Terminal organs, 10. 'Spe- cific energies,' 11. Sensations cognize qualities, 13. Knowl- edge of acquaintance and knowledge-about, 14. Objects of sensation appear in space, 15. The intensity of sensations, 16. Weber's law, 17. Fechner's law, 31. Sensations are not psychic compounds, 23. The ' law of relativity,' 24. Effects of contrast, 26. CHAPTER III. Sight ••. = ....,. The eye, 28. Accommodation, 32. Convergence, binocular vision, 33. Double images, 36. Distance, 39. Size, color, 40. After-images, 43, Intensity of luminous objects, 45. CHAPTER IV. Hearing The ear, 47. The qualities of sound, 43. Pitch, 44. ' Tim- bre,' 45. Analysis of compound air-waves, 56. No fusion of elementary sen.sations of sound, 57. Harmony and discord, 58. Discrimination by the ear, 59