10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «HORMIC»
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The Comprehensive History of Psychology
Chapter Preview William McDougall developed the system of hormic psychology.
He emphasized upon purposive behaviour which is spontaneous and continuous
. He defined psychology as "the positive science of conduct of living creatures".
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An Introduction to Social Psychology
Nietzsche's scattered contributions to psychology are thoroughly hormic ; and
Bergson's vague doctrine of the “ flan vital " can be classed only under the same
heading. Freud's psychology would be thoroughly hormic, if he had not spoilt it in
...
3
Dictionary of Theories, Laws, and Concepts in Psychology
McDOUGALL'S HORMIC/INSTINCT THEORY/DOCTRINE 319 the
psychoanalytic and behavioristic approaches. Criticism of Maslow's humanistic
theory of personality has been that it is more of a secular replacement for religion
than it is a ...
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A History of Clinical Psychology
For his own theory of hormic psychology, McDougall (1930) had words of praise
and the hope of success. It seemed to him that almost everyone now agreed
behavior was purposive, and so he saw a possibility for the eventual acceptance
of ...
5
Foundations Of Education, 2E
McDougalPs Assertions* McDougall claims that the processes of organic
evolution have not been so tenably explained by other psychological theories as
by the Hormic theory. This theory regards an experience as a unitary whole
which ...
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Mcdougall's
Hormic Theory and Its Influence on Subsequent ...
The purpose of this study has been to investigate as fully as possible the background and the developments ofthe hormic theory and its effective influence upon present day psychology.
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Infant Speech: A STUDY OF THE BEGINNINGS OF LANGUAGE
Thus the notion of hormic energy finding vent in merely random movements is
self— contradictory. If a movement is a manifestation of hormic energy it is, to use
McDougall's phrase, directed towards some natural goal, and thus is not more ...
8
Principles Of Education
We have next to bring out a most important feature which belongs to hormic
processes of both kinds and of all levels — namely, their tendency to come
together in such a way as to merge their separate identity in some hormic
process of wider ...
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New Perspectives in Psychology
Because of his emphasis on hormones in life, purposivism was called "Hormic
Psychology". Hormic psychologists regard man not only as aunitbut also as a
purposive striving organism. They are strongly opposed to the mechanistic or ...
Gabriela M. Barrios, 1992
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A Critical History and Philosophy of Psychology: Diversity ...
Hormic. psychology. In An Introduction to Social Psychology (1908), which went
through twenty-three editions, William McDougall addressed the broad spectrum
of psychological processes. Intrigued by body–mind relations, his mission was to
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Richard T. G. Walsh, Thomas Teo, Angelina Baydala, 2014
