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Informationen zum Autor William M Marston, C Daly King Klappentext First Published in 1999. This text is the author's attempt to orgnaise the field of psychology for students. This volume make a critical examination of various psychological and semi-pstchological attempts to classify fundamental human activities; and thereafter attempts to postulate elementary behaviour units which may serve psychology precisely as the atom and electron have served in chemistry. Zusammenfassung This text is the author's attempt to orgnaise the field of psychology for students. This volume make a critical examination of various psychological and semi-pstchological attempts to classify fundamental human activities. Inhaltsverzeichnis FOREWORD. -- I THE INTEGRATIVE PSYCHOLOGY OF YOU -- Introductory¿Psychological Law¿The Limits of Psychological Law¿Psychology¿s You Consists of Integrative Activities ¿ Consciousness: A Product of Integrative Activity¿Integrative Psychology Does Not Imply Control of the Organism by Environment. -- II FUNDAMENTAL ACTIVITIES -- Early Soul Theories¿Modern Soul Theories¿ Mechanistic Theories¿The Dynamic School¿The Psvchoanalysts¿The Instinctivists¿James-¿The Purposivists¿ Reaction Tendencies¿Biological Action Tendencies¿Prepotent Reflexes¿Behavionstic Reflexes¿Unit Responses¿Summary. -- III ELEMENTARY UNIT RESPONSES -- The Organism as a Reacting Unit¿Adequate Stimuli to Unit Responses: Stimulus must compete successfully with other Stimuli; Stimulus must change Unit Pattern of Activities; Stimulus must oppose or ally itself with Activity Pattern; Summary¿Responses. of the Unit Organism; Responses of Opposition; Opposition-increase; Opposition-decrease; Alliance Responses; Alliance-increase; Alliance.decrease¿Four Elementary Unit Responses: Dominance; Compliance; Submission; Inducement ¿ Circular Series of Elementary Unit Responses -- IV THE HIDDEN MACHINERY -- PART I: RECEPTORS, NEURONS AND EFFECTORS -- Introductory¿The Parts of the Hidden Machine and their ReLation to Each Other¿(A). Receptors: General Classes and Types of Receptors-.--Reception versus Sensation¿Skin Receptors¿Touch and Pressure¿Thermal Receptors¿Pain¿Chemi. cal SensIbility¿Vision¿Hearing¿SmeLL¿Taste-¿ Muscular Sensitivity¿Tendon Receptors¿Joint Receptors¿Balance and Equilibrium¿The Visceral Receptors: Hunger¿Thirst¿Abdominal Pain¿Other Visceral Receptors¿(B). The Neuron: Nerve Trunk Conduction¿Size and Function of Neurons¿(C). Synapses: Structure of the Synapse ¿Function of the Svnapse¿(D). Effectors: Genera! Types¿ The Muscles: Striped¿Smooth¿ The Glands: Duct¿Ductless¿Endocrine: Thyroids Parathvrojds ¿ Adrenais ¿ Pituitary ¿ Thymus¿Pineal¿Gonads. -- V THE HIDDEN MACHINERY -- PART II: PuT REACTIONS OF THE - HIDDEN MACHINERY -- Putting the Hidden Machinery together¿The Reflex Arc¿The Central Nervous System: The Brain; The Cerebrum; The Cerebellum; The Thalamus; The Medulla Oblongata; The Spinal Cord¿Peripheral Nerve Groups¿Tbe Cerebrospinal Nerves¿The Autonomic Nervous System¿ Ganglionic Plexi¿The Simple Reflex and the Total Response¿Classes of Part-Reactions¿ Psycbomc Reactions¿Summary. -- IV THE HIDDEN MACHINERY -- PART III: Acriows AND REACTIONS OF THE HIDDEN MACHINERY -- (A) Actions of the Hidden Machinery : The `Self¿ and Its Role in the Unit Response; Genetic Stimulus Mechanisms and the Reflex Activities they Cause; Mechanical and Physical Stimulus Mechanisms resulting in Reflex Activity; SemiCircular Canals; Dilation of Blood Vessels; Variations in Smooth Muscle Tensions; Self Initiated Contractions of the Skeletal Muscles; Constant Auditory Activity; Regulation of Body Temperature; Pressure of Secretions; Chemical Stimulus Mechanisms: the Endocrines; Taste and Smell; Basic Metabolism; Nervous Mechanisms especially Devoted to Self Activities; Importance of the Self in the Unit Response; Actions of the Hidden Machinery Constitute the Self¿ -- (B) Reactions of the Hidden Machinery: Elementary Unit Responses;...
