The elements of experience and their integration, or modalism / by Henry J. Watt.

  • Watt, Henry J. (Henry Jackson), 1879-1925.
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1911
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    [From THE JOURNAL OF PSYCHOLOGY, Vol. IY. Pt. 2, September, 1911.] [All Rights reserved.] THE ELEMENTS OF EXPERIENCE AND THEIR INTEGRATION: OR MODALISM. By HENRY J. “WATT. § 1. Introduction. Physiology and psychology. The elements of experience, their study in isolation and in compounds. The causal interpretation of mind. § 2. Preliminary definition of sensation. § 3. The independence of psychological investigation. § 4. The typical characteristics of sensation: (a) intensity, extensity, order, other aspects; (b) difficulties: sound, vision, smell; (c) conclusion. § 5. The measurement of experience. § 6. Secondary modifications of sensation. I. Motion: cutaneous; articular; labyrinthine; olfactory; visual; time-limits of motion; speed; order-difference limits of motion; how do the primary sensations integrate to form the modification ? motion and the attention; melody. § 7. Secondary modifications (cont.). II. Distance: its definition and occurrence ; threshold of distance ; direction; the variation of distance ; distance and the attention ; interval. § 8. Retrospect. § 9. Concerning the sufficiency of sensations as elements of ex- perience. § 10. Feeling. As sensation; as element; integrative theories of; its varieties and characteristics; comparison of feeling and motion ; is the integrative basis for feeling sufficient ? of what attribute of experience is feeling the integration ? § 11. Recognition. As sensation ; as element; as secondary modi- fication of order ; comparison with feeling and motion ; is the integrative basis sufficient ? not a modification of time. § 12. Conclusion. The classification of experiences. The gain for the experimental study of thought; and for genetic study. J. of Psych, iv 9