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n. (plural of process English) vb. (en-third-person singular of: process)

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In the examples taken from the school, on the other hand, the processes of adjustment are, to a greater or less extent, directed and regulated through the presence of some type of educative agent.

For the educator, therefore, psychology may be limited to a study of the definite states of consciousness which arise through an apperceiving act of attention, that is, to our states of experience and the processes connected therewith.

Congress, therefore, could not authorize the Supreme Court to take appeals from an auditor or require it to express an opinion in a case where its judicial power could not be exercised, where its judgment would not be final and conclusive upon the parties, and where processes of execution were not awarded to carry it into effect.

That law establishes an Atomic Energy Commission of five members which is empowered to conduct through its own facilities, or by contracts with, or loans to private persons, research and developmental activity relating to nuclear processes, the theory and production of atomic energy and the utilization of fissionable and radioactive materials for medical, industrial and other purposes.

For the removal of unwise laws from the statute books appeal lies not to the courts but to the ballot and to the processes of democratic government.

Congress has the power under the clause to provide for the service and execution throughout the United States of the judicial processes of the several States.

If there be time to expose through discussion the falsehood and fallacies, to avert the evil by the processes of education, the remedy to be applied is more speech, not enforced silence.

These processes are, however, so complex in modern society, that, in any attempt to secure experience directly, the child is likely to be overwhelmed by their complex and unorganized character.

As the Science of Consciousness, or Experience, psychology explains the processes by which all experience is built up, or organized, in consciousness.

This fact will become even more evident, however, when later we study such mental processes as sense perception and conception.

It was, in other words, by a series of regular selecting and relating processes, that his general notion was finally clarified.

A mental state, or experience, so-called, is such a discriminated portion of this stream of consciousness, and is, therefore, itself a process, the different processes blending in a continuous succession or relation to make up the unbroken flow of conscious life.

By giving him an insight into the general principles underlying conscious processes, psychology should aid the teacher to control the learning process in the child.

Here, by the method of observing the acts and language of very young children, data are obtained concerning the native instincts of the child, concerning the genesis and development of the different mental processes, and the relation of these to physical development.

Here, as in the case of the ordinary physical experimenter, the psychologist seeks to control certain mental processes by isolating them and regulating their action.