The Principles of Psychology, Volume 1 (of 2)James, William
Philosophy
The Principles of Psychology, Volume 1 (of 2)
James, William
Psychology
[108] Physiol. Psych., ii, 221-2. Cf. also the first edition, 728-9.
I must confess to finding all Wundt's utterances about 'apperception'
both vacillating and obscure. I see no use whatever for the word, as he
employs it, in Psychology. Attention, perception, conception, volition,
are its ample equivalents. Why we should need a single word to denote
all these things by turns, Wundt fails to make clear. Consult, however,
his pupil Staude's article, 'Ueber den Begriff der Apperception,' etc.,
in Wundt's periodical Philosophische Studien, i, 149, which may be
supposed official. For a minute criticism of Wundt's 'apperception,'
see Marty: Vierteljahrschrift f. wiss. Philos., x, 346.
[109] By Exner, for example, Pflüger's Archiv, vii, 628 ff.
[110] P. 222. Cf. also Richet, Rev. Philos., vi, 395-6.
[111] For instance, if, on the previous day, one had resolved to act on
a signal when it should come, and it now came whilst we were engaged in
other things, and reminded us of the resolve.
[112] "I need hardly mention that success in these experiments depends
in a high degree on our concentration of attention. If inattentive, one
gets very discrepant figures.... This concentration of the attention
is in the highest degree exhausting. After some experiments in which I
was concerned to get results as uniform as possible, I was covered with
perspiration and excessively fatigued although I had sat quietly in my
chair all the while." (Exner, _loc. cit._ vii, 618.)
[113] Wundt, Physiol. Psych., ii, 226
[114] Pflüger's Archiv, vii, 616.
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