An outline of psychology / by William McDougall.

  • William McDougall
Date:
1933
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Credit: An outline of psychology / by William McDougall. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Xix PAGE patterns of three kinds—Qualitative patterns—Temporal patterns— Spatial patterns—Varieties of sensory qualities—Temporal perception— Spatial perception—Perception of a solid object—Imagery—Can “meaning” be analyzed into “images” ?—Minds of simple and of com¬ plex structure. CHAPTER IX Attention and Interest.265 The cycle of mental activity—Is striving initiated by feeling? Or is feeling secondary to striving? Psychological hedonism and utilitarian¬ ism—Intensity and suddenness of sense-impression not in themselves determinants of attention—What is interest?—Interest is conative— Conative unity—Conative persistence and reversion of attention— Distribution of attention. CHAPTER X Imagining—Anticipating—Recollecting.284 The use of names—Pre-perception the most primitive kind of imagin¬ ing—Language as stimulus to imagination—Exaggeration of the role of movement in thinking—Anticipatory and reproductive imagination— Experiments on memory—Is retentiveness improved by practice?—Are habit and memory identical functions?—The role of “meaning” in re¬ membering—Memory or remembering in the strict sense—How do we “place” our memories in the past?—The essence of recognition—Mem¬ ory and conation—Desire and imagination. CHAPTER XI Emotion.314 Qualitative varieties of emotional experience—Two senses of the word emotion”—Conation as a mode of experience—Conative experience in emotional excitement—Emotion, impulse, and bodily adjustments— Instincts and corresponding qualities of emotion—The primary emo¬ tions—The Lange-James theory of emotion—The blended or secondary emotions. CHAPTER XII The Derived Emotions.33s Prospective emotions of desire—Retrospective emotions of desire—Joy a derived emotion—Surprise—Distinction between primary and de¬ rived emotions—The use of the word “feeling”—Varieties of feeling— Blending of pleasure and pain—Feelings and emotions disentangled.
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