Your Mind and How to Use It: A Manual of Practical Psychology
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YOUR MIND AND HOW TO USE IT
Contents.
CHAPTER I. What is the Mind?
Mind Defined.
"Think About That Which Thinks."
CHAPTER II. The Mechanism of Mental States.
The Nerves.
The Sense of Touch.
The Sense of Sight.
The Sense of Hearing.
The Sense of Smell.
The Sense of Taste.
CHAPTER III. The Great Nerve Centers.
The Spinal Cord.
The Ganglia or "Tiny Brains."
Reflex Action.
The Three Brains.
The Cortex.
CHAPTER IV. Consciousness.
Subconscious Planes.
CHAPTER V. Attention.
Training the Attention.
CHAPTER VI. Perception.
Developing Perception.
CHAPTER VII. Memory.
Retention.
Visualization in Memory.
Perception in Memory.
Understanding and Memory.
CHAPTER VIII. Memory—Continued.
The Law of Association.
Association in Memory.
Repetition in Memory.
General Rules of Memory.
Making Impressions.
Recalling Impressions.
Final Advice.
CHAPTER IX. Imagination.
Developing the Imagination.
Imagination and Ideals.
CHAPTER X. The Feelings.
CHAPTER XI. The Emotions.
CHAPTER XII. The Instinctive Emotions.
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.
Blended Emotions.
CHAPTER XVIII. The Role of the Emotions.
CHAPTER XIX. The Emotions and Happiness.
CHAPTER XX. The Intellect.
Concepts.
CHAPTER XXI. Conception.
Perception.
Memory.
Abstraction.
Comparison.
Classification or Generalization.
CHAPTER XXII. Classes of Concepts.
Imperfect Concepts.
CHAPTER XXIII. Judgments.
CHAPTER XXIV. Primary Laws of Thought.
Fallacious Application.
CHAPTER XXV. Reasoning.
Immediate Reasoning.
Reasoning by Analogy.
Higher Forms of Reasoning.
CHAPTER XXVI. Inductive Reasoning.
CHAPTER XXVII. Deductive Reasoning.
Cultivation of Reasoning Faculties.
CHAPTER XXVIII. Fallacious Reasoning.
Fallacies.
General Rule of Inference.
Sophistical Arguments.
Fallacies of Prejudice.
CHAPTER XXIX. The Will.
(1). Desire.
(2). Deliberation.
(3). Action.
Types of Will.
CHAPTER XXX. Will-Training.
Training the Will.
Habits.
CHAPTER XXXI. Will-Tonic.
Words of the Wise.
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