Essays Tagged: "William James"

Freewill and determinism conflict (choice)

tally, then he could have helped it; hecould have acted differently. "The great American pragmatist William James in his famousessay 'The Dilemma of Determinism,' James rejects determinism on the grou ...

(4 pages) 267 0 3.0 Jan/1996

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Philosophy

Biological Lab report: The Facial feedback hypothesis "The emotions we experience are also influenced by sensory feedback from the face?"

hat 'Free expression by outward sign of an emotion intensifies'. The theory of emotion developed by William James (1922) also emphasized that feedback from the autonomic and muscular system (included ... er, for the Jamesian theory, the facial feedback theory of emotional efference derives in part from William James, who in proposing his famous theory of emotion in 1884 introduced the possibility of a ...

(8 pages) 263 0 4.9 Apr/2003

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Psychology

What does truth mean?

s the belief, it will lead to good consequences. An example of someone who is a pragmatist would be William James. "An example of a pragmatic theory situation would be , when you do a math problem tha ...

(4 pages) 161 0 5.0 Apr/2003

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Philosophy

Arranged marriages.

nts of dating abuse.There are different ways by which an adolescent can abuse their dating partner. William James states that emotional abuse comes in the form of insulting the dating partner in front ... 1 Nov. 2002). 20 Feb. 2003 .Dickenson, Amy. "When Dating is Dangerous". Time 27 Aug. 2001:63.James, William. "Youth Dating Violence". (2000). 20 Feb. 2003 .Knox, David. "Abuse in Dating Relationships ...

(6 pages) 70 0 3.3 May/2003

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Anthropology

According to William James's Pragmatism what do the truth and justification of a belief consist?

ly. Experience, as we know, has ways of boiling over, and making us correct our present formulas. - William James, Pragmatism pg 100.There are five main "theories of truth": the correspondence theory, ... fied? What are the bearers of truth?" Pragmatic theory, one of the main representatives of which is William James, holds that the truth of a belief is a matter of whether it "works," i.e. whether acti ...

(9 pages) 258 0 0.0 Dec/2003

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Philosophy

Historical Foundation of Psychology.

d be examined. These are the structuralism school of Wilhelm Wundt, and the functionalist school of William James. Behaviorism might be considered a separate development since Watson consciously attem ... misrepresented his mentor's teachings.American functional psychology had its formal beginnings with William James who established his laboratory at Harvard the same year that Wundt established his in ...

(8 pages) 456 1 4.6 Feb/2004

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Psychology

Emotion

he task at hand; emotions interfere less with simple tasks than with more complicated ones.In 1884, William James publishes an article in a philosophy journal. The article was named 'What is an emotio ...

(8 pages) 283 0 4.1 Oct/2004

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Psychology

Book Notes and lecture Notes from Chapter 1, Introduction to Psychology, Dennis Coon, Tenth Edition

ard is still used in the studies of hypnosis, meditation problem solving, moods and any other topicsWilliam James(Functionalism)Believed that ideas should be judged in terms of third practical consequ ...

(10 pages) 368 2 3.0 Dec/2004

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Psychology

The Automaticity of motor behaviour

oes this happen?Automaticity has been well discussed since its beginnings through theorists such as William James and M. Leon Dumont. Dumont described automaticity as being compared to paper 'it costs ... lar excitements from without, when they have been interrupted a certain time.' (Cited: James 1890). William James wrote about it in the Chapter called 'Habit' (1890), and in this chapter he theorized ...

(5 pages) 28 0 3.0 Sep/2006

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Psychology > Psychological Theories & Authors

Free Will Vs. Determinism

's whole future. After examining those possibilities it is then clear why one choose what they did. William James also argues this point, "Indeterminism says such possibilities exist, and form a part ...

(5 pages) 26 0 0.0 Nov/2001

Subjects: Literature Research Papers

Religious Experience and the Existence of God

escribe religious experiences are wholly other, this means the experience is different to any other.William James said that a religious experience was always ineffable, (too great to describe). James ...

(5 pages) 36 0 0.0 Feb/2008

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Philosophy

Foundations of Psychology

sts believe that "consciousness exists because it serves a function" (Kowalski & Westen, 2005). William James, one of the founders of functionalism, set out to explain why we think the way that we ...

(3 pages) 116 0 1.0 Sep/2008

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Psychology

Theoretical Position Paper

posing theory, which became known as individual psychology (Feist, J. & Feist, G. 2006, p. 205).William James was a man of many talents. He was a philosopher and a psychologist and taught both and ... heory made them go on their own. The classic psychological theories of Sigmund Freud, Alfred Adler, William James and Carl Jung have laid the foundation for modern clinical practice (Nystul, M. S. 200 ...

(5 pages) 93 0 3.0 Jan/2009

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Psychology

Analyse the key strengths of the argument for the existence of God based on religious experience. Evaluate the view the weaknesses of this argument lead to its rejection.

e gaining of knowledge of the "Ultimate Reality" and the closest encounter with the divine. However William James suggests the term mystical is used for a variety of context and is far ambiguous. Ther ...

(6 pages) 16 0 0.0 Nov/2009

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Philosophy

Foundations of Psychology

as Wilhelm Wundt who is considered to be the father or founder of psychology, Edward Titchener, and William James who wrote the first book about psychology, developed schools of thought or perspective ... that was used in the early stages of psychology methods is called functionalism, and was founded by William James and focused primarily on the function of thought processes and behaviors of children, ...

(4 pages) 42 0 0.0 Apr/2010

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Psychology

Human Psychology

punishment, discourse would make it even more abrasive.The James-Lange theoryThe theory lay down by William James and Carl Lange is known as James-Lange theory. According to this theory, amongst manki ...

(3 pages) 48 0 3.5 Jul/2010

Subjects: Science Essays > Mental Health

Biological and Humanistic Approaches Personality Assessment

udiando esta materia desde hace siglos. Explicar la naturaleza de la conciencia fue considerado por William James (uno de los grandes pioneros de la psicología) como el tema más dif&iacu ...

(7 pages) 5 0 0.0 Oct/2010

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Psychology > Psychological Theories & Authors

Foundatins of Psychology

r of psychology and of course the first book that was written on psychology by Edward Titchener and William Jones share their thoughts and perspectives on human behavior and how they perform in differ ... sier to understand component.Another method called functionalism, derived from another psychologist William James, mainly centered on functions of the thought process and the behaviors of humans, and ...

(3 pages) 17 0 0.0 Nov/2010

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Psychology

Biological and Humanistic Approaches Personality Assessment

udiando esta materia desde hace siglos. Explicar la naturaleza de la conciencia fue considerado por William James (uno de los grandes pioneros de la psicología) como el tema más dif&iacu ...

(7 pages) 13 0 0.0 Jan/2011

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Psychology