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Psychology

by William James (1842–1910)

32 chapters, about 104,000 words. The text is in the public domain in the United States and comes from Project Gutenberg.

Chapters

1. PREFACE. 1,800 words
2. INTRODUCTORY. 1,100 words
3. SENSATION IN GENERAL. 3,000 words
4. SIGHT. 3,300 words
5. HEARING.[18] 1,200 words
6. CHAPTER V. 1,400 words
7. SENSATIONS OF MOTION. 2,000 words
8. FIG. 28. FIG. 29. FIG. 30. 2,200 words
9. THE FUNCTIONS OF THE BRAIN. 4,600 words
10. SOME GENERAL CONDITIONS OF NEURAL ACTIVITY. 2,600 words
11. HABIT. 4,300 words
12. THE STREAM OF CONSCIOUSNESS. 6,800 words
13. A) THE SELF AS KNOWN. 4,800 words
14. B) THE SELF AS KNOWER. 4,600 words
15. ATTENTION. 4,800 words
16. CONCEPTION. 1,200 words
17. DISCRIMINATION. 1,800 words
18. ASSOCIATION. 5,600 words
19. THE SENSE OF TIME. 1,500 words
20. MEMORY. 3,800 words
21. IMAGINATION. 1,700 words
22. PERCEPTION. 5,300 words
23. THE PERCEPTION OF SPACE. 4,100 words
24. REASONING. 4,200 words
25. CONSCIOUSNESS AND MOVEMENT. 500 words
26. EMOTION. 4,200 words
27. INSTINCT. 7,200 words
28. WILL. 8,200 words
29. I + E > P. 4,300 words
30. PSYCHOLOGY AND PHILOSOPHY. 900 words
31. TAINE, 208 300 words
32. FOOTNOTES: 500 words

Ideas discussed in this book

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• Ability
• Anxiety
• Cerebral cortex
• Color
• Consciousness
• Corpus callosum
• Discrimination
• Emotion
• Expert
• Fear
• Feeling
• Instinct
• Phosphorus (morning star)
• Vowel

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