THE METHODS AND SNARES OF PSYCHOLOGY Psychology is a natural Science. Introspection, 185. Experiment. Sources of error. The 'Psychologist's fallacy'. CHAPTER VIII. THE RELATIONS OF MINDS TO OTHER THINGS Time relations: lapses of Consciousness--Locke _v_. Descartes. The 'unconsciousness' of hysterics not genuine. Minds may split into dissociated parts. Space-relations: the Seat of the Soul. Cognitive relations. The Psychologist's point of view. Two kinds of knowledge, acquaintance and knowledge about. CHAPTER IX. THE STREAM OF THOUGHT, 224 Consciousness tends to the personal form. It is in constant change. It is sensibly continuous. 'Substantive' and 'transitive' parts of Consciousness. Feelings of relation. Feelings of tendency. The 'fringe' of the object. The feeling of rational sequence. Thought possible in any kind of mental material. Thought and language. Consciousness is cognitive. The word Object. Every cognition is due to one integral pulse of thought. Diagrams of Thought's stream. Thought is always selective. CHAPTER X. THE CONSCIOUSNESS OF SELF The Empirical Self or Me. Its constituents. The material self. The Social Self. The Spiritual Self. Difficulty of apprehending Thought as a purely spiritual activity. Emotions of Self. Rivalry and conflict of one's different selves. Their hierarchy. What Self we love in 'Self-love'. The Pure Ego. The verifiable ground of the sense of personal identity. The passing Thought is the only Thinker which Psychology requires. Theories of Self-consciousness: 1) The theory of the Soul. 2) The Associationist theory. 3) The Transcendentalist theory. The mutations of the Self. Insane delusions. Alternating selves. Mediumships or possessions. Summary. CHAPTER XI. ATTENTION Its neglect by English psychologists. Description of it. To how many things can we attend at once? Wundt's experiments on displacement of date of impressions simultaneously attended to. Personal equation. The varieties of attention. Passive attention. Voluntary attention. Attention's effects on sensation;--on discrimination;--on recollection;--on reaction-time. The neural process in attention: 1) Accommodation of sense-organ. 2) Preperception. Is voluntary attention a resultant or a force? The effort to attend can be conceived as a resultant. Conclusion. Acquired Inattention. CHAPTER XII. CONCEPTION The sense of sameness. Conception defined. Conceptions are unchangeable. Abstract ideas, 468. Universals. The conception 'of the same' is not the 'same state' of mind. CHAPTER XIII. DISCRIMINATION AND COMPARISON