October 22, 2024

·      What question about the reading for today did I prepare before class?

o   Did the constant pressure cause him to become discouraged?

·      What key ideas did I hear in seminar today?

o   Stream of consciousness: human consciousness is a stream of thought
and that humans can’t have the same experience twice. He thought that even the unconsciousness had a stream like quality because you can remember events before and after the gap like consciousness was never broken.

o   Habit, Emotion, Will

o   James-Lange theory of emotion

o   Accepted the presidency of the American Psychological Association in 1894 and 1904.

o   Charles Sanders Peirce and pragmatism: scientific ideas and knowledge can never be absolutely certain, but only subject to varying degrees of “pragmatic belief”.

o   He studied religious feelings, impulses, states of mind and other
subjunctive phenomena.

§  Saintliness:

·      Explored the effects of conversion in producing grace, harmony, purity,
charity, asceticism and ability to see oneself as part of a higher purpose.

·      What substantive ideas or comments did I contribute in seminar today?

o   Active Listening

·      What did I learn today that contributed to my understanding of psychology?

o   Ideas gain or lose their value depending on their particular environment and competitors.

o   James used this idea in his textbook and extended on the ideas in other books and articles through topics such as religion, emotional and ethical ideas.