Lectures on the Experimental Psychology of the Thought-Processes (Classic Reprint) - Couverture souple

Titchener, Edward Bradford

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1330870522 ISBN 13 : 9781330870525

Editeur : Forgotten Books, 2018

Synopsis

A classic, experiment-based look at how ideas, attention, and meaning are studied under careful observation.

This work surveys how thoughts arise, how we attend to things, and how meaning is formed. It foregrounds kinaesthetic sensation, verbal and imaginal processes, and the body’s role in conscious experience. The author argues for an experimental psychology of thought and discusses the limits of introspection, imagining how meaning can be carried by organic attitudes, imagery, and even physiological states.

Readers will encounter discussions of perception, memory, judgment, language, and the nature of meaning itself. The text situates the study of thought within a broader history of psychological theories, while emphasizing concrete methods and observable phenomena in controlled settings.

• Explains how meaning can arise from kinaesthetic, imaginal, and verbal processes.
• Explores organic attitudes and their role in conscious experience and attention.
• Considers the limits of introspection and the experimental status of different distinctions in thought.
• Addresses how perception, memory, judgment, and language relate to the study of thinking.

Ideal for readers seeking a rigorous, historical perspective on the experimental study of thought and meaning.

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur

Feeling and A ttention, published last year, I remarked that the system of psychology rests upon a threefold foundation: the doctrine of sensation and image, the elementary doctrine of feeling,and the doctrine of attention. This statement, which formed the basis of my whole discussion, was promptly challenged by reviewers. I was misled, they affirmed, by a sensationalists bias; I should have taken account of current experimental work upon the thoughtprocesses; I had no right to assume that all intellection is imaginal in character. I could not but acknowledge the essential justice of this criticism, although I could not either accept my critics point of view. I was, indeed, engaged in writing a brief defence of psychological sensationalism, when I received an invitation to deliver a series of lectures at the University of I llinois. Here was an opportunity, of which I gladly availed myself, to treat in some little detail of the recent experimental contributions to the psychology of thought. The present volume is the result.
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Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Forgotten Books
• Date d'édition: 2018
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1330870522
• ISBN 13: 9781330870525
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 336
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