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Credit: A first book in psychology / by Mary Whiton Calkins. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: A first book in psychology / by Mary Whiton Calkins. Source: Wellcome Collection.
![Might lean across the centuries *1* vt* *]» »]> »,> Even he might find a study, fair As his last fresco in the skies, Might pause, untouched of mortal taint, One infinite half-hour to paint The motherhood in your dear eyes.” The study of reproductive imagination will involve us in more detail. It has already been classified as complete or incomplete, accurate or inaccurate. These are relative terms, and it is probable, of course, that no case of literally complete and accurate reproductive imagination ever occurs. Practi¬ cally complete and accurate imagination is called memory and is, as everybody knows, a significant factor in conduct and an indispensable basis for thought. The questions, “ How do I remember ?” and “How may I foster and, if possible, increase my chance of remembering ?” assume, therefore, a practical importance of high order. The admitted answer to the first of these questions is as follows: “I remember through association.” The meaning of this term we have next to discuss. II. The Nature of Association Successive association is the sequence of an imagination on a perception (or another imagination), a sequence which is attributed (in after-reflection) to the previous occurrence, simultaneously or in swift succession, of the two experiences.1 * * The term ‘association’ is often used in the sense of ‘successive’ associa¬ tion. For the distinction between ‘successive’ and ‘simultaneous’ associa¬ tion, cf. Chapter IV., p. 65, with Note, and Appendix, Section VII. (§ 1). The Arabic numerals, throughout the chapter, refer to numbered divisions of the Appendix, Section VII.](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b31353058_0124.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
