We have reviewed the whole field of psychophysical disturbances, those produced through external conditions in the normal brain and those resulting from abnormal brain constitution.
But the psychologist has good reason to discriminate between those actions which result from the normal psychophysical factors and such actions as result from broken machinery.
It was only the psychophysical pain in the brain which had been inhibited.
If he knows the psychophysical status, and finally if he knows the means of influencing those psychophysicalorgans which stimulate or inhibit the disturbed central parts, he can foresee the psychophysical effects with a certain definiteness.
As soon as a disturbance to be cured is considered as a lack of equilibrium in psychophysical functions, every mental influence, every suggestion and appeal becomes itself an excitement or an inhibition of nerve cells.
Nearest to the psychophysicalprocesses stands the bodily symptom of insomnia.
In the same way many other non-psychical centers of the brain may be brought to efficiency through psychophysical regulation.
It is claimed that after all it is not the mental effect of the prayer, but the prayer itself, not the psychophysical emotion of religion, but the value of religion which determines the cure.
Thus it is only natural that a hypnotic influence can produce similar changes on the psychophysical centers in such cases in which the source of the trouble is a psychophysical laziness in the acoustical center.
The causes of sleeplessness may still lie in the psychophysical sphere; restless thoughts may inhibit the idea of sleep.
On the other hand, contact with the greater will must open the whole reservoir of suppressed energies, and this outbreak of hidden forces may work towards the regeneration of the whole psychophysical system.
Suggestion and hypnotism certainly must play a large part in psychotherapy and that part does not become smaller by the fact that we reject the subconscious interpretation of them and consider them entirely as psychophysical processes.
By granting the phylogenetic, racial significance we also give the basic, psychophysical meaning of tics in all ticquers.
We may thus lay down in a general sort of way a conception which I like to call the theory of psychophysical progression, fixation and regression along evolutionary and developmental lines.
The motor expression manifests itself most often in habit movements of disguised sexual significance (autoerogenous pleasures) a form of physical stereotypy, in its broadest psychophysical meaning.
These processes involve, but are not identical with physical processes, constituting with them a psychophysical unity.
One movement after the other may be resorted to, some perfectly consciously, others more or less unconsciously, as reactions of the personality, of the organic makeup or psychophysical constitution.
When there are sources of irritation or bodily or mental discomfort, there is a more or less general bodily reaction, psychophysical in nature.
There then follow a series of fascinating and inspiring papers, as follows: The Sources and Direction of Psychophysical Energy, by William McDougall; Autistic Thinking by E.
This process represents a real infection of ideas, feelings, emotions, or otherpsychophysical states.
The psychophysical experiment leaves no doubt that this imitative response releases the sources of strongest energy in the mental mechanism.
Including psychophysical evolution, evolution by orthoplasy, and the theory of genetic modes.
The beauty of music, in so far as beauty is identical with pleasantness, consists in its satisfaction of the demands of the ear, and of the whole psychophysical organism as connected with the ear.
And how perfectly the ancient belief fits our psychophysical analysis!
The stimulation and repose of the psychophysical organism alone can make one thrill to visual form; but the thrill is deeper and more satisfying if it engage the whole man, and be reinforced from all sources.
So far, what we see is only another name for HOW we see; and the way of seeing has proved to contain enough to bring to stimulation and repose the psychophysical mechanism.
We have defined beauty as that which brings about a state of harmonious completeness, of repose in activity, in the psychophysical and psychological realms.
The personality, as dealt with in psychology, is but the psychophysical organism; and we need to know only how to translate unity and self-completeness into psychological terms.
Those psychophysical changes induced by the sight now mutually check and modify each other.
So the idea belonging to the object, and the psychophysical effect of the object are only obverse and inverse of the same phenomenon.
I knew that Lee was not religious, and, therefore, I did not tell him about it.
Though I was quite sincere and answered most of their questions.
Did he talk about getting you a silver bracelet or any presents before he went?
Such is the little interested and impulsive psychophysical organism whose springs of action the teacher must divine, and to whose ways he must become accustomed.
Besides all this, experimental observation yielded much other information about the span of consciousness, the rapidity of certain processes, the exact numerical value of certain psychophysical data, and the like.
But, meanwhile yielding one's self to the mechanical conception of the psychophysical organism, nothing is easier than to indulge in a picture of the fatalistic character of human life.
The action of the glands controls the psychophysical reactions, so that the ideas which would lead to opposite response are inhibited.
In every one of these cases nature has furnished the body with a wonderful psychophysical mechanism which enforces the outcome automatically.
On the contrary, the first demand of civilization must be to make use of this inborn psychophysical apparatus for its own ideal human purposes, and to adjust the social behaviour most delicately to the unchangeable mechanism.
But we have to observe that the practical need of this maxim is largely due to the qualifications which the psychophysical generalisation requires to make it true.
I have perhaps said enough to support my general conclusion that psychophysical speculation as to the causes of pleasure and pain does not at present afford a basis for a deductive method of practical Hedonism.
In short, the whole individual financial situation in its relation to the psychophysical achievement of the wage-earner is a favorite topic of economic inquiry.
I examined them with reference to eight different psychophysical functions.
From here he turned to the application of well-known psychophysical principles.
Society relies instinctively on the hope that the natural wishes and interests will push every one to the place for which his dispositions, talents, and psychophysical gifts prepare him.
The time alone which is wasted by useless psychophysical operations in front of and behind the counter represents a gigantic part of the national budget.
This whole complex movement is of course more difficult and demands a somewhat longer period of learning, but as soon as it is learned an extreme saving of psychophysical energy and a correspondingly great economic gain is secured.
Thousands of different kinds of labor are thus combined in one factory and each process demands for the best work particular psychophysical traits, even though many of them can be carried out by quite unskilled laborers.
Whoever has once schooled his eye to observe the limitless waste of human motions and psychophysical efforts in social life has really no difficulty in perceiving all this at every step.
Labor with the large muscles has, for these psychophysical reasons, never been easily combined with the subtler training of the finer muscles.
The theory of psychophysical parallelism has been subjected to a rigorous examination in James Ward's Naturalism and Agnosticism, part iii.
Walter, I think you will recall the test I used once, the psychophysical factor of the character and rapidity of the mental process known as the association of ideas?
This," he remarked slowly, "is what I call my psychophysical test for falsehood.
Analogy makes it easy to assume that the ways of beasts had produced channels of habit and predisposition along which dexterities and other psychophysical activities would run easily.
The precise psychophysicalmechanism through which the different moods are aroused is for the most part hidden from us; yet in certain particulars we can form some idea of it.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "psychophysical" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
