Human Potentialities |
From inside the book
Results 1-3 of 19
Page 53
... sensitive spot on the surface becomes more and more sensitive to the particular types of external energies that it is specialized to re- ceive . Sense organs , such as the eye , develop through a long series of complications from these ...
... sensitive spot on the surface becomes more and more sensitive to the particular types of external energies that it is specialized to re- ceive . Sense organs , such as the eye , develop through a long series of complications from these ...
Page 130
... sensitive to something in this challenging and fascinating world . The second phase in creativeness appears when this sensitivity , this demand upon the world for contact and assimilation , leads to the acquisition of storehouses full ...
... sensitive to something in this challenging and fascinating world . The second phase in creativeness appears when this sensitivity , this demand upon the world for contact and assimilation , leads to the acquisition of storehouses full ...
Page 188
... sensitive when special equipment is used ( " photic driving " ) . We are on the threshold of discovering an ... sensitivity long useful from an evolutionary point of view ; it is the deepening and enrichment of a basic capacity for ...
... sensitive when special equipment is used ( " photic driving " ) . We are on the threshold of discovering an ... sensitivity long useful from an evolutionary point of view ; it is the deepening and enrichment of a basic capacity for ...
Contents
Our Twentiethcentury Vantage Point | 3 |
The Invention of Culture | 47 |
How We Come to Want What We Want | 60 |
Copyright | |
9 other sections not shown
Other editions - View all
Common terms and phrases
achieve activity adaptive radiation appear arts aspects association psychology autisms basic become biological C. D. Broad canalization capacity cathexis century changes complex conception cosmic craving creative cultural curiosity depend discovered discovery drives emergence environment evolution example existence experience fact factors freedom fulfillment genes genetic give given goals Gordon Allport hard determinism herent homogamy human potentialities hypnosis ideas impulse individual integration intellectual interaction invention involved James Harvey Robinson Julian Huxley kind Kurt Lewin learning living man's mankind means ment mind modes mold move organization patterns period person physical possible principle problem psychoanalysis psychology reality relation response rhythms rigid satisfactions scientific sense sensitive sensory sheer simian social society specific structure things thinking thought three human natures tion tive trends tural ture types understanding World War II