A first book in psychology / by Mary Whiton Calkins.

  • Mary Whiton Calkins
Date:
1910
Catalogue details

Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: A first book in psychology / by Mary Whiton Calkins. Source: Wellcome Collection.

    104/446 page 86
    lighted room and no object stands out from the dazzling con¬ fusion of light and color; * or when, in his first waking moments, he is vaguely conscious of colors, warmth, pres¬ sures, and sounds which, as he slowly wakens, seem to range and round themselves into wall, furniture, bed-coverings, and knock-upon-the-door. In a word, perception, like im¬ agination, is the consciousness not of an undifferentiated totality but of differentiated objects. And the differentia¬ tion, the realization of different groups of qualities as making up each distinct object, is plainly due to the habitual occur¬ rence of certain experiences in close connection. So, when the experiences of wetness, whiteness, warmth, and sweetness have often enough coincided, the baby has the consciousness of milk; and when the experiences of redness, softness, woolliness, and roundness have often enough occurred to¬ gether, he is conscious of the ball. The outcome of this chapter is, then, to amplify the account of perception and imagination by regarding each as the fusion and assimilation of a limited group of sense-elements with the consciousness of unity and of difference. * Cf. Judd, “Psychology: General Introduction,” p. 172.
    No text description is available for this image
    No text description is available for this image
    No text description is available for this image