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Nervous system.

Goddard, Henry Herbert

Pages: 3 –19

The human nervous system is the most elaborate and complicated structure in the entire body. It consists of two main parts, the cerebro-spinal and the sympathetic. The latter is sometimes called the vegetative and more recently the autonomous, nervous system. The cerebro-spinal system is again...

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The beginnings of mind.

Goddard, Henry Herbert

Pages: 19 –51

In the previous chapter we have given a brief outline of the mechanism of the nervous system from which the student will understand something of the machinery which underlies mind. Our next step is to try to see how the development of mind follows the growth of the nervous system. Something is...

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Arrested mental development.

Goddard, Henry Herbert

Pages: 52 –68

In the previous chapters has been described the course of brain development including the ever increasing elaboration of neuron patterns. We have assumed that there is a time when this neuron development becomes complete, at which time there is, so far as the brain is concerned, the possibility...

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Some properties inherent in the nervous mechanism.

Goddard, Henry Herbert

Pages: 69 –89

Any mechanism as elaborate as the nervous system has some properties inherent in its very nature. These properties must now be considered because they are fundamental for the beginnings of mind. First we note that out of this mechanism, consciousness arises. We have assumed that there are neuron...

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Higher mental processes.

Goddard, Henry Herbert

Pages: 90 –109

In previous chapters we surveyed the simpler mental processes. While some of these may involve rather complex neuron patterns, they are nevertheless connected with and depend upon the more primitive parts of the brain. These parts are very early developed and many of the neuron patterns are...

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Higher mental processes--Continued.

Goddard, Henry Herbert

Pages: 110 –122

Continuing the previous chapter's discussion of the higher mental processes, this chapter's sections examine the following topics: Associative Memory; Memory in the Feeble-Minded; Creative Imagination; Wit; and The Unity of Mind. In summary we may observe that: 1. The extension of nerve action...

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The affective side of experience.

Goddard, Henry Herbert

Pages: 123 –139

We have so far considered only the mental processes that depend upon the activity of the cerebro-spinal nervous system. Now we turn to a wholly different phase of mind, and yet one that is not only prominent, but also very important in all mental life, since it has to do with the comfort or the...

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Appreciation in literature, art and music.

Ruediger, William Carl

Pages: 144 –165

One of the foremost problems in developing appreciation in literature, art, and music is found in the selection of the material to be taught. We have been introducing difficult selections too soon. Our standard has been that of the adult rather than the child. Much of the material that we have...

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Thot.

Goddard, Henry Herbert

Pages: 158 –173

This chapter covers thot (thought) and thinking. The sections of this chapter address the following topics: Do Animals Think? Thinking as Problem Solving; Thinking among the Feeble-Minded or those with Imbecility or Moronity; and Helen Keller's Descriptions as a Window into Primitive Association...

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Social-moral education.

Ruediger, William Carl

Pages: 166 –196

The terms social and moral in such expressions as social education and moral education are not synonymous but complementary. Social is objective in reference, while moral is subjective. One refers to the acquisition of information about our institutions and social relationships; the other to the...

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