An Introduction to Psychology Translated from the Second German Edition

Many psychologists and philosophers have denied the existence of special laws for our psychical life, if we understand this to mean specific laws, differing from the universal p...

The elements of our consciousness, as the foregoing discussion has taught us, stand in general combinations with each other. Even where objective impressions lack steady combina...

If psychologists are asked, what the business of psychology is, they generally make some such answer as follows, if they belong to the empirical school: that this science has to...

In our last chapter we have discussed the general and formal characteristics of consciousness. These have appeared to us in the scope of consciousness, in the different grades o...

There are cases of severe insanity in which the patients utter with great rapidity a number of words, joined together without sense and sometimes intermingled with absolutely me...

The relation between psychical and natural laws--The psycho-physical individual--The question as to the universal validity of the laws--The principle of creative resultants--The...

General characteristics of apperceptive combinations as compared to associations--The aggregate idea and its analysis--Concrete and abstract thought--Speech and thought--Underst...

Associations and apperceptions--The fusion of tones into clangs--Spatial and temporal perception --Assimilation and dissimilation--Direct and reproduced forms of the same--Compl...

Psychical elements and compounds--Sensation and idea--Memory images and perceptions--Quality and intensity of sensations--Feelings--Difference between sensation and feeling--The...

Psychology as a description of processes of consciousness--The metronome--The rhythmical disposition of consciousness--The scope of consciousness--The threshold of consciousness...