The source and aim of human progress / Boris Sidis.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Sidis, Boris, 1867-1923, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Progress.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (63 pages)

Place of Publication:

Boston : Richard G. Badger, [1919]

Summary:

"About twenty-five years ago I published in my Psychology of Suggestion a series of experiments on Normal and Abnormal Suggestibility, carried on at various laboratories including my own laboratory. I developed the psycho-physiological theory of the subconscious, traced the causation and nature of subconscious activities, and worked out the laws of normal and abnormal suggestibility. The following pertains to our present subject: The nervous centers of man's nervous system, if classified as to function, may be divided into inferior and superior. The inferior centers are characterized by reflex and automatic activities. A stimulus excites the peripheral nerve-endings of some sense-organ. At once a nerve-current is set up in the afferent nerves. The current in its turn stimulates a plexus of central ganglia, the nerve energy of which is set free, and is propagated along the efferent nerves towards muscles and glands, --secretions, muscular contractions and relaxations are the result; biologically regarded, various reactions and adjustments follow"-- Book. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2014 APA, all rights reserved).

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