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Mind and body.

Pages: 5 –10

What is mind? This is one of the oldest problems of the world, and we are very little nearer a solution of it to-day than were the thinkers of the ancient world. Certain we may be that the mind is not material, and yet just as certainly it is closely connected with the physical frame which is...

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The beginnings of mind.

Annett, Edward Aldridge

Pages: 11 –17

We have seen that the sources from which the mind receives its information concerning the world about us are the five senses, whose sensations are registered in the brain in the form of impressions. These sensations or Impressions are the basis of mind. Just as everything In the material world is...

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The association of ideas.

Annett, Edward Aldridge

Pages: 18 –24

We have discovered how ideas enter the mind; we have now to see what happens to them when they get there. Before going Into the matter, however, let us consider a phenomenon which is of daily occurrence in our experience, and which will yield a suggestive line of approach to the problem before...

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The memory.

Annett, Edward Aldridge

Pages: 25 –34

The unceasing stream of impressions that flows in upon us through our five senses leaves its traces upon the mind, and these traces are retained by what we call Memory. Some of them remain on the surface where they may be recalled, while others, the great majority, seem to lose themselves deep in...

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The imagination.

Annett, Edward Aldridge

Pages: 35 –46

In Memory we saw, stretching away Into our minds beyond our present consciousness, "a vast, silent region of unconsciousness, where past experience is stored." At the summit of this region of unconsciousness we imagined there to stand a platform to which Recollection has the power of summoning...

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The instincts.

Annett, Edward Aldridge

Pages: 47 –62

Why does a child imitate? Almost as soon as he is born he begins to show a tendency to act as others do about him. It is not because he thinks: that is a mental development far beyond his present ability. No, he imitates merely because he has to do so. It Is one of his natural instincts, we say;...

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The subconscious and unconscious.

Annett, Edward Aldridge

Pages: 63 –78

This stage of our study will be the best at which to notice the revolution that has been made in psychological theories by recent discoveries in the realm of the Subconscious Mind. This term has now come into such general use as to be almost as familiar as the words Memory and Imagination. The...

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Suggestion and autosuggestion.

Annett, Edward Aldridge

Pages: 79 –88

Closely allied to the general subject of the Unconscious Mind and to the practice of psycho-analysis are the recently popularized theories of Suggestion and Autosuggestion. In its wider meanings the importance and power of Suggestion have been recognized by almost every writer on psychology and...

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Heredity.

Annett, Edward Aldridge

Pages: 89 –98

Peculiar difficulty attends any consideration of Heredity In that the subject has been a veritable battle-ground for psychologists and others who are concerned with the practical problems of the Improvement of society. The importance and potency of heredity, recognized from the earliest days of...

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Habit.

Annett, Edward Aldridge

Pages: 99 –109

Upon our hereditary tendencies, whether they be ancient and ancestral or those derived from our parents. Environment plays, bringing stimulus and opportunity, and the child's response forms Habit. Theoretically, the difference between Instinct and Habit is easily stated: Instincts are inherited...

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