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Human Nature and Education. With Special Reference to India

1926

The attitude of habit is the tendency to conserve theTHE MODIFIABILITY OF THE ORGANISM 7 type and that of accommodation is the tendency to modify the type with reference to the needs of the situation. [...] The unavoidable conclusion is that in the evolution of human behaviour the instinctive has developed out of the reflexive and the conscious out of the instinctive. [...] Some of the more familiar types are the pupillary reflex ' in which the pupil of the eye is contracted as a protection against a bright light shining into the eye the flexion reflex ' or jerking of the leg in response to a painful stimulus to the foot the patellar reflex ' or knejerk incited by striking the patellar tendon immediately below the knee when the leg is bent the flow of tears [...] The connection of the nerves in the system is analogous to a telephone system in which the nerve current which is chemical and electric resembles the electricity of the telephone the nerve centre the switchboard the sensory nerve the person making the call and the motor nerve the person answering the call. [...] Emotional experences are reduced by many scholars to purely physiological reactions ' such as changes in breathing in circulation in the churning of the stomach and in the kneading of the intestines change of the starch of the liver into sugar and changes in the secretions of the endocrine glands—in particular the thyroid and adrenal glands.
education
Pages
302
Published in
United Kingdom
SARF Document ID
sarf.144855
Segment Pages Author Actions
Frontmatter
i-ix A.S. Woodburne view
Chapter I The Biological Viewpoint in Education
1-16 A.S. Woodburne view
Chapter II Instinctive Types of Behaviour
17-36 A.S. Woodburne view
Chapter III The Nature of Intelligence and Methods of Measuring It
37-54 A.S. Woodburne view
Chapter IV The Feelings
55-70 A.S. Woodburne view
Chapter V Attention and Its Control
71-88 A.S. Woodburne view
Chapter VI The Learning Process
89-110 A.S. Woodburne view
Chapter VII Habit Formation
111-128 A.S. Woodburne view
Chapter VIII The Memory Processes
129-147 A.S. Woodburne view
Chapter IX The Associative Tendencies
148-169 A.S. Woodburne view
Chapter X The Perceptual Processes
170-188 A.S. Woodburne view
Chapter XI Imagination
189-207 A.S. Woodburne view
Chapter XII The Will
208-225 A.S. Woodburne view
Chapter XIII The Psychological Basis for Instruction
226-252 A.S. Woodburne view
Chapter XIV The Old Examination Versus the New
253-269 A.S. Woodburne view
Chapter XV The Achievement of Personality
270-286 A.S. Woodburne view
Index
287-292 A.S. Woodburne view

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