Introduction to physiological psychology : translated by C.C. Van Liew and Otto Beyer.
- Theodor Ziehen
- Date:
- 1892
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: Introduction to physiological psychology : translated by C.C. Van Liew and Otto Beyer. Source: Wellcome Collection.
Provider: This material has been provided by the Gerstein Science Information Centre at the University of Toronto, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the Gerstein Science Information Centre, University of Toronto.
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![TABLE OF CONTENTS. PAGE Author's Preface v Translators' Preface CHAPTER I. Theme and Synopsis of Contents i The antithesis of material and psychical phenomena—The province of physiological psychology—Pyschology as a science—Criterion of the psychical—Reflex action—Its non-psychical character and its fitness—Automatic action—Distinguished from Reflex action— Two classes of automatic action—Its non-psychical character. CHAPTER II. Sensation—Association—Action 20 The elements of the psychical process—Action distinguished from teflex and automatic acts—Sensation and association—Action itself without a psychical concomitant—Sensation and ideation the only psychical processes—The question of voluntary action— Classification and division of the three forms of action—Their anatomical localization. CHAPTER III. Stimulus—Sensation y] Kinds and forms of stimuli—Adequate and inadequate stimulation— Theory of specific energy—Nerve-conduction—Table of stimuli —Qualities of sensation—Intensity of sensation—Its measurement —Law of Weber—Fechner's formula—The three interpretations of Weber's Law—Author's interpretation.](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b20997280_0011.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
