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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    5. The Teel’ of soap. 6. The Teel’ of dough. 7. The heat of a hot plate. 8. The smell of peppermint. 9. The smell of onion. 10. The taste of salt. It is obvious that one who ‘sees’ the pink and green and shape of the rose has a visual imagination, and that visual imaginations differ according as colors or forms are more distinctly visualized. The person with auditory imagination can ‘ hear ’ the sound of the organ and the crack of the whip; and, in similar fashion, the other types of concrete imagination are tested by these questions. It should be noted that, in many experiences, visual imagination supplements the per¬ ception of pressure and of sound, as when we ‘localize’ a touch by imagining the look of wrist or of forehead, on which it falls, or imagine the puffing red motor-car at sound of its bell. There is no character in which individuals differ more widely than in the prevailing sense-type of their imagination. In recalling, for example, the balcony scene in “ Romeo and Juliet,” some people see with the eye of the mind the shadowy form of Romeo and the figure of Juliet, clear-cut against the lighted window, the ‘stony limits,’ the cypresses, statues, and fountains of the Italian garden, and the “blessed moon . . . that tips with silver all these fruit-tree tops ”; others, like Juliet, may “know the sound of that tongue’s utterance,” and may hear, in imagination, Romeo’s deep-voiced love- making and the “silver-sweet sound” of Juliet’s replies “like softest music to attending ears.” Still others, finally, may image Romeo’s movements as “with love’s light wings” he “did o’erperch these walls.”
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