Your Mind and How to Use It: A Manual of Practical Psychology
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Atkinson William Walker. Your Mind and How to Use It: A Manual of Practical Psychology
CHAPTER I. What is the Mind?
CHAPTER II. The Mechanism of Mental States
CHAPTER III. The Great Nerve Centers
CHAPTER IV. Consciousness
CHAPTER V. Attention
CHAPTER VI. Perception
CHAPTER VII. Memory
CHAPTER VIII. Memory – Continued
CHAPTER IX. Imagination
CHAPTER X. The Feelings
CHAPTER XI. The Emotions
CHAPTER XII. The Instinctive Emotions
CHAPTER XIII. The Passions
CHAPTER XIV. The Social Emotions
CHAPTER XV. The Religious Emotions
CHAPTER XVI. The Aesthetic Emotions
CHAPTER XVII. The Intellectual Emotions
CHAPTER XVIII. The Role of the Emotions
CHAPTER XIX. The Emotions and Happiness
CHAPTER XX. The Intellect
CHAPTER XXI. Conception
CHAPTER XXII. Classes of Concepts
CHAPTER XXIII. Judgments
CHAPTER XXIV. Primary Laws of Thought
CHAPTER XXV. Reasoning
CHAPTER XXVI. Inductive Reasoning
CHAPTER XXVII. Deductive Reasoning
CHAPTER XXVIII. Fallacious Reasoning
CHAPTER XXIX. The Will
CHAPTER XXX. Will-Training
CHAPTER XXXI. Will-Tonic
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THE mechanism of mental states – the mental machinery by means of which we feel, think, and will – consists of the brain, nervous system, and the organs of sense. No matter what may be the real nature of mind, – no matter what may be the theory held regarding its activities, – it must be admitted that the mind is dependent upon this mechanism for the manifestation of what we know as mental states. Wonderful as is the mind, it is seen to be dependent upon this physical mechanism for the expression of its activities. And this dependence is not upon the brain alone, but also upon the entire nervous system.
The best authorities agree that the higher and more complex mental states are but an evolution of simple sensation, and that they are dependent upon sensation for their raw material of feeling and thought. Therefore it is proper that we begin by a consideration of the machinery of sensation. This necessitates a previous consideration of the nerves.
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The nerves of the sense of taste terminate in the tongue, or rather in the tiny cells of the tongue which are called "taste buds." Substances taken into the mouth chemically affect these tiny cells, and an impulse is transmitted to the gustatory nerves, which then report the sensation to the brain. The authorities claim that taste sensations may be reduced to five general classes, viz.: sweet, bitter, sour, salty, and "hot."
There are certain nerve centers having important offices in the production and expression of mental states, located in the skull and in the spinal column – the brain and the spinal cord – which we shall consider in the following chapter.
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