Psychology: the Cognitive Powers

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By Listen TheBook Posted on Sep 19, 2024

In Category - Psychology

Authors: James McCosh In Year : 1886

Book Language: English

Audiobook: Psychology: the Cognitive Powers

Introduction Part 1
Introduction Part 2
Book First - The Simple Cognitive or Presentative Powers -Sense-Perception Part 1
Book First - The Simple Cognitive or Presentative Powers - Sense-Perception Part 2
Book First - The Simple Cognitive or Presentative Powers - Sense-Perception Part 3
Book First - The Simple Cognitive or Presentative Powers - Sense-Perception Part 4
Book First - The Simple Cognitive or Presentative Powers - Sense-Perception Part 5
Book First - The Simple Cognitive or Presentative Powers - Self-Consciousness Part 1
Book First - The Simple Cognitive or Presentative Powers - Self-Consciousness Part 2
Book Second - The Reproductive or Representative Power - Retention
Book Second - The Reproductive or Representative Power - The Recalling Power or Phantasy Part 1
Book Second - The Reproductive or Representative Power - The Recalling Power or Phantasy Part 2
Book Second - The Reproductive or Representative Power - The Association of Ideas Part 1
Book Second - The Reproductive or Representative Power - The Association of Ideas Part 2
Book Second - The Reproductive or Representative Power - The Association of Ideas Part 3
Book Second - The Reproductive or Representative Power - The Association of Ideas Part 4
Book Second - The Reproductive or Representative Power - The Association of Ideas Part 5
Book Second - The Reproductive or Representative Power - The Recognitive Power
Book Second - The Reproductive or Representative Power - The Power of Composition Part 1
Book Second - The Reproductive or Representative Power - The Power of Composition Part 2
Book Second - The Reproductive or Representative Power - The Power of Composition Part 3
Book Second - The Reproductive or Representative Power - The Symbolic Power
Book Third - The Comparative Powers - Office of the Comparative Powers
Book Third - The Comparative Powers - Classification of Relations Part 1
Book Third - The Comparative Powers - Classification of Relations Part 2
Book Third - The Comparative Powers - The Discursive Operations
Book Third - The Comparative Powers - Intuition in the Discovert of Relation
Book Third - The Comparative Powers - General Remarks on the Comparative Powers
Conclusion - Rise of our Ideas

For the last thirty-four years I have been teaching Psychology by written lectures to students in Ireland and America. From year to year I have been improving my course, and I claim to have advanced with the times. As Uncle Toby's stockings were so often darned that he was not sure whether there remained a single thread of the original fabric, so my prelections have been so constantly mended that I do not know that a single sentence remains of my early lectures. I certainly wish this little work to be used as a textbook, and would thus widen and prolong my teaching power. But people say "dull as a text-book". In physical science and in literature they illuminate their books (as in the old missals) by figures. We cannot do this in mental science, as our thoughts have not forms nor colors. I maintain, however, that they have livelier features. I have sought to avoid dryness by illustrating mental laws by examples taken from human nature. As general laws are drawn from particular cases, so they are best understood by concrete facts coming under our experience. - Summary by Preface