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“Physiological psychology, on the other hand, is competent to investigate the relations that hold between the processes of the physical and those of the mental life.”

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Book:Principles of Physiological Psychology

Source: Principles of Physiological Psychology

“The attitude of physiological psychology to sensations and feelings, considered as psychical elements, is, naturally, the attitude of psychology at large.”

Philosophy Feelings Body Attitude Psychology Elements Medicine Senses Sensations Soma Physiological

Book:Principles of Physiological Psychology

Source: Principles of Physiological Psychology

“The task of physiological psychology remains the same in the analysis of ideas that it was in the investigation of sensations: to act as mediator between the neighbouring sciences of physiology and psychology.”

Ideas Philosophy Body Psychology Tasks Remains Medicine Senses Analysis Sensations Investigation Soma Physiological Physiology Mediators

Author:Wilhelm Wundt

“The patterns of activity of neurons in sensory areas can be altered by patterns of attention. Experience coupled with attention leads to physical changes in the structure and future functioning of the nervous system. This leaves us with a clear physiological fact…moment by moment we choose and sculpt how our ever-changing minds will work. We choose who we will be in the next moment in a very real sense, and these choices are left embossed in physical form in our material selves.”

Mind Real Self Moments Facts Form Choices Next Left Attention Clear Materials Activity Areas Structure Patterns Nervous Altered Nervous System Sensory Neurons Physiological

Author:Michael Merzenich

“If both the physiological and the safety needs are fairly well gratified, then there will emerge love and affection and belongingness needs, and the whole cycle already described will repeat itself with this new centre. Now the person will feel keenl”

Ifs Needs Feels Wells Persons Whole Reality Safety Affection Repeats Cycles Centre Physiological Love And Affection

Author:Abraham Maslow

“Physiological expenditure is a superficial way of self-expression. People who incline toward physical love accomplish nothing at all.”

People Way Self Sex Expression Accomplish Superficial Self Expression Expenditures Incline Physiological Accomplish Nothing

Author:Salvador Dali

“Let us imagine, for example, that a mother is still in such a state of consciousness that she has forgotten the rest of the world while discovering her baby; suddenly somebody appears with two clamps and a pair of scissors in order to cut the cord. This distraction is a dangerous interference with the physiological processes.”

“How can we say nobody's perfect if there is no perfect to compare to? Perfection implies that there really is a right and wrong way to be. And what type of perfection is the best type? Moral perfection? Aesthetic? Physiological? Mental?”

Ifs Way Perfect Moral Type Perfection Compare Aesthetic Wrong Way Physiological Nobody's Perfect Moral Perfection

Author:A.S. King

“The goal of physiological research is functional nature.”

Goal Research Physiological

Author:Walter Rudolf Hess

“The last great unknown, in terms of physiological training, is the optimum length of a piece. Is three minutes enough? Is ten minutes too much? No one knows. Perhaps someday the question will be answered-we'll find out that thirteen minutes is the perfect length for a training piece when preparing for a 2000 meter race. Until then, coaches will continue exploring the whole scale, up and down, from thirty seconds to sixty minutes and more, in hopes of capturing the optimum time.”

“For over two billion years, through the apparent fancy of her endless differentiations and metamorphosis the Cell, as regards its basic physiological mechanisms, has remained one and the same. It is life itself, and our true and distant ancestor.”

Years Two Regard Billions Endless Cells Fancy Mechanism Ancestor Metamorphosis Physiological Differentiation

Author:Albert Claude

“Art is personal, originating from dreams, ideas, neuroses; art is shared, harkening back to the humans around the fire; art imbues pleasure and power by enabling people to know reality...Art is a necessity because it is a way of knowing...Is the need for truth physiological? Art exists out of time...images may be different bu there is always a repetition- a thread.”

People Knows Way Needs Humans May Art Ideas Different Dream Reality Pleasure Knowing Fire Art Is Thread Repetition Neurosis Enabling Physiological

Author:Zelda Fichandler

“We need to move beyond asking what drug will treat the symptoms, and instead ask what mechanism creates altered neurochemical or neurobiological function or systemic physiological change.”

Needs Moving Asks Drug Treats Function Asking Mechanism Symptoms Altered Physiological

Author:Jeffrey Bland

“...the influence of the factory upon the physiological and mental state of the workers has been completely neglected.”

Has Beens States Age Dark Influence Workers Medical Factories Neglected Dark Ages Physiological

Book:Man the Unknown

Source: Man the Unknown

“I'm no shrinking violet. I played hockey until half my teeth were knocked down my throat. And I'm extremely competitive on a tennis court. . . But that experience at the slaughterhouse overwhelmed me. When I walked out of there, I knew I would never again harm an animal! I knew all the physiological, economic, and ecological arguments supporting vegetarianism, but it was firsthand experience of man's cruelty to animals that laid the real groundwork for my commitment to vegetarianism.”

Source: Peter Burwash's Vegetarian Primer

“The only difference between fear and excitement is what we label it. The two are pretty much the same physiological/emotional reaction. With fear, we put a negative spin on it: "Oh no!" With excitement, we give it some positive english: "Oh, boy!"”

Giving Two Fear Differences Boys Emotional Negative Reactions Labels Excitement Physiological Emotional Reactions

Book:Life 101: Everything We Wish We Had Learned about Life in School--but Didn't

Source: Life 101: Everything We Wish We Had Learned about Life in School--but Didn't

“I don't know if it is a spiritual, physiological or psychological phenomenon, but I believe now more than ever that singing is a universal, built-in mechanism designed to cultivate empathy and compassion.”

Ifs Knows Believe Spiritual I Believe Compassion Empathy Singing Built Universal Psychological Phenomenon Mechanism Physiological Compassion And Empathy

Author:Eric Whitacre

“If you look at body fat, it seems to increase with age, even though your weight does not. That's a physiological fact of aging, they say. Heck it is. It is an adaptive effect of aging.”

Ifs Looks Doe Facts Body Seems Age Effects Weight Increase Aging Fats Physiological Adaptive Body Fat

Author:Kenneth H. Cooper

“Biologically, man is still the great amateur of the animal kingdom; he is unique in his lack of anatomical and physiological specialization.”

Men Stills Animal Mankind Unique Kingdoms Physiological Specialization Animal Kingdom

Author:Rene Dubos

“It is clear that all verbal structures with meaning are verbal imitations of that elusive psychological and physiological process known as thought, a process stumbling through emotional entanglements, sudden irrational convictions, involuntary gleams of insight, rationalized prejudices, and blocks of panic and inertia, finally to reach a completely incommunicable intuition.”

Source: Anatomy of Criticism

“Nine-tenths of the appeal of pornography is due to the indecent feelings concerning sex which moralists inculcate in the young; the other tenth is physiological, and will occur in one way or another whatever the state of the law may be.”

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Book:Marriage and Morals

Source: Marriage and Morals

“This substance, which is manifold in its forms and protean in its transformations, has, in its state of living matter, one physiological name which has become familiar, that of protoplasm.”

Matter States Form Names Transformation Familiar Substance Physiological Manifold

Book:Natural Science and Religion

Source: Natural Science and Religion

“The addictive experience is the totality of effect produced by an involvement; it stems from pharmacological and physiological sources, but takes its ultimate form from cultural and individual constructions of experience.”

Form Individual Effects Source Ultimate Construction Stem Involvement Totality Physiological

Book:The Meaning of Addiction: Compulsive Experience and Its Interpretation

Source: The Meaning of Addiction: Compulsive Experience and Its Interpretation

“Clearly, health and disease cannot be defined merely in terms of anatomical, physiological, or mental attributes. Their real measure is the ability of the individual to function in a manner acceptable to himself and to the group of which he is a part.”

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Author:Rene Dubos

“Recent studies of mindfulness practices reveal that they can result in profound improvements in a range of physiological, mental, and interpersonal domains in our lives. Cardiac, endocrine, and immune functions are improved with mindfulness practices. Empathy, compassion, and interpersonal sensivity seem to be improved. People who come to develop the capacity to pay attention in the present moment without grasping on to their inevitable judgments also develop a deeper sense of well-being and what can be considered a form of mental coherence.”

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