The Principles of Psychology, Volume 2
William James
Language: English
Pages: 717
ISBN: 2:00046653
Format: PDF / Kindle (mobi) / ePub
Volume 2 of the famous long course, complete and unabridged. Covers stream of thought, time perception, memory, and experimental methods. Total in set: 94 figures.
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Volume 2
Chapter 17. Sensation
Chapter 18. Imagination
Chapter 19. The Perception of 'Things'
Chapter 20. The Perception of Space
Chapter 21. The Perception of Reality
Chapter 22. Reasoning
Chapter 23. The Production of Movement
Chapter 24. Instinct
Chapter 25. The Emotions
Chapter 26. Will
Chapter 27. Hypnotism
Chapter 28. Necessary Truths and the Effects of Experience
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supposed to inhabit the 43 SENSATION. become seats for each other, as fast as experience associates them together but that violates no primitive seat possessed by any one of them. And though our sensations cannot ; then so analyze and talk of themselves, yet at their very first appearance quite as much as at any later date are they cognizant of all those qualities which we end by extracting and conceiving under the names of objectivity, exteriority, and extent. It is surely subjectivity and
injury, what ination from the for centres his to ever it was, optical imagination, would less profoundly. much life his have affected practical start, it is u The appears to be rarer than auditory type" says M. A. Binet,f Persons of this type imagine what they think of in the the visual. a lesson they impress upon language of sound. In order to remember the words. their mind, not the look of the page, but the sound of ear. In performing a mental ad as well as remember, by reason, "
the other senses. admit that the subjective us to force these facts would is less absolute difference between imagined and felt objects than has been claimed, and that the cortical processes which underlie imagination and sensation are not quite as discrete That peripheral sen is tempted to suppose. in are involved imagination seems ordinarily sory processes be that sometimes aroused they may from the cortex improbable ; as one at first downwards cannot, however, be dogmatically denied. The
apt to fed as if the movement had actually taken place. This seems habitually to be the case in anaesthesia of the moving parts. Close the patient s eyes, hold his anaesthetic arm still, and tell him to raise his hand to his head and when he opens his eyes he will be astonished to find that the movement has not taken place. All reports of anaesthetic cases seem to mention this illusion. Sternberg who wrote on the subject in 1885,* lays it down as a law that the intention ; to move shall is
dis apart. contrasted in quality. If ; fortiori, tant on the back have no qualitative contrast at all, and fuse Points less than three thousandths into a single sensation. on the retina sensations so awaken of a millimetre apart them immediately as two. we that contrasted apprehend these unlikenesses which arise so slowly when we pass from one point to another in the back, so much faster on the tongue and finger-tips, but with such inconceivable what are they ? Can we discover rapidity on
