The mind at work : a handbook of applied psychology / edited by Geoffrey Rhodes.

Date:
1914
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Credit: The mind at work : a handbook of applied psychology / edited by Geoffrey Rhodes. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Mind. See p. 47 el seq. Neurone. A nerve-cell with appendages. Particles of which the brain and spinal cord are composed. Psychology. Science of description and explanation of states of consciousness. Psychoses. Total state of consciousness as existing at any given moment distinguished from the accompanying brain changes. Psycho-therapeutics. Medical application of psychological methods. Relativity, law of. The way in which we feel things in their relation to each other. The mind works by comparison. We know black and white, for instance, as opposite rather than as separate unconnected experiences. Retentiveness. The power of absorbing and retaining knowledge. Retrospection. The analysis of memory. Sensation. Conscious state resulting from stimulation of sense-organ. Sensations, organic. Those that arise from the body itself, as aches and pains. Stimulus. The external phenomenon giving rise to a sensation. Sub-consciousness or sub-attentive mind. That part of consciousness that is outside the theatre of immediate attention—the consciousness that directs automatic nervous action, as digestion, walking, etc., and habits. Suggestion. The imparting of an idea by a cue, or indirect prompting. Will-action prompted by feeling. The putting forth of active energy to move our own organs, or change something about us. BILLING AND SONS, LTD., PRINTERS, GUILDFORD
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