Attention and interest : a study in psychology and education / by Felix Arnold.

  • Arnold, Felix, 1879-
Date:
1910
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Credit: Attention and interest : a study in psychology and education / by Felix Arnold. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    sentative sort of way a situation may assume a form somewhat removed from the original. An outline, plan, picture, word, image, idea, thought, may take the place of the situation for the indi- vidual, may, in a number of ways, stand for the actual situation. One who wishes to buy a book, for example, needs but to utter the necessary words in order to realise his intention. ‘Book’ in such a case is all that is necessary for the purpose. If it is to be read, however, it must exist in more real form. When a situation is present in ideal form it receives the stamp of reality when it points to some foundation situation which can be directly controlled in a motor way. It receives a tinge of the impelling and necessary nature of founda- tion situations only by the feel of motor tenden- cies which impel realisation. A book which, when thought of, calls forth tendencies to open and touch it, is much more real than simply ‘book’ spelled out or seen only visually. So, too, the idea of a plaything has reality for the child when he feels tendencies to play with it. An ideal scheme can have reality only as affecting prac- tice, only as it leads to some basic situation. Until such realisation is possible it must be incomplete, it must exist much like a visual situ-
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