A first book in psychology / by Mary Whiton Calkins.

  • Mary Whiton Calkins
Date:
1910
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Credit: A first book in psychology / by Mary Whiton Calkins. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    when in the summer of 1901 I actually saw the Dent du Midi, for the second time, I recognized it as the same moun¬ tain which I had first seen ten years before — and this was recognition with perception. Recognition is distinguished, also, as more or less complete. When I recognize a figure in a Paris crowd as one I have seen before, but try in vain to recall name or home or other association, this is very incomplete recognition. The recognition is relatively complete if, on the other hand, I recognize the figure as that, for example, of Pro¬ fessor Harold Hoffding; if I recall that I first met him in the World’s Fair Building at St. Louis in 1904; that he has written a book on psychology, a history of philosophy, and a philosophy of religion; that he has a son who is much con¬ cerned in problems of Danish education, and so on. It is evident that there are indefinitely many grades of com¬ pleteness of recognition, and it must now be shown that this completeness consists in the supplementation of recognition by associated imagination. Totally incomplete recognition, which occurs seldom (according to some psychologists, never), is that in which one perceives or imagines an object without any associated imagination of former place or circumstance. The recognition is nearly incomplete if there occur only a single supplementary imagination — for example, if the recogni¬ tion of a face suggests one image only, that of a steamer-deck; it grows fuller if there follow more images — for instance, if the steamer-deck image is succeeded by the verbal image, “ Devon¬ ian, 1902”; it is more nearly complete when there follow — probably after a pause and in a rush — still other images, verbal or concrete, for instance, the images of “ Colonel Blake, Civil War veteran, travelling with a pretty young wife.” Supplementing imagination plays so important a part in
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