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Pillsbury, W. B.

Pages: 1 –11

This chapter discusses the mental effects of attention and can be summarized as follows: (1) The essence of attention as a conscious process is an increase in the clearness of one idea or group of ideas at the expense of others. (2) Whether the change in clearness is identical with, or dependent...

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The motor concomitants of attention.

Pillsbury, W. B.

Pages: 12 –25

One of the most striking facts in connection with attention is its close connection with bodily movement and posture. Attention to any stimulus is accompanied by widespread motor phenomena. This chapter can be summarized as follows: (1) The muscles of sense organs contract to give the greatest...

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The conditions of attention.

Pillsbury, W. B.

Pages: 26 –52

Before we can attempt any theory of attention, or even any more extended treatment of the effects of attention in consciousness, it seems well to give an unprejudiced statement of the conditions under which attending takes place. By condition in this connection we mean not so much to imply a...

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Interest and feeling of activity as conditions of attention.

Pillsbury, W. B.

Pages: 53 –63

Two conditions of attention are ordinarily regarded as of the first importance—interest and feeling. They are, in fact, the only conditions that are mentioned popularly. It seems well, therefore, to ask whether they are to be retained at all in the list, if a part shall be ascribed to them. This...

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The effects of attention in consciousness.

Pillsbury, W. B.

Pages: 64 –83

There are several facts in connection with attention and its results in consciousness that are of considerable interest in themselves, and throw light upon problems of practical value for teachers and others, as well as being very important for the theory of attention. Of these we shall consider...

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The methods of measuring attention.

Pillsbury, W. B.

Pages: 84 –93

Measures of attention may be divided into three groups: direct, by means of accomplishments in some operation or other; indirect, by fluctuations of attention or by the mean variation in a set of measurements; and by the amount of stimulus necessary for distraction. No one of the methods is...

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Attention and ideas.

Pillsbury, W. B.

Pages: 94 –113

Association, like attention, is not the outcome of any one set of conditions, but is an expression of the totality of mind at the time the association takes place. This chapter can be summarized as follows: (1) Attention plays very much the same part in controlling the centrally excited processes...

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Attention and association in perception.

Pillsbury, W. B.

Pages: 114 –128

It seems, in the light of the ordinary opinion, that perception would be a simpler problem than association, and that sensations must get into the mind before they are associated. While this is true of sensations, ideas or objects are not recognized so immediately, and are much more complex than...

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Attention in memory.

Pillsbury, W. B.

Pages: 129 –148

Of all the higher processes, memory is perhaps the one that is of the most general interest in attention. This chapter can be summarized as follows: (1) Memory is influenced by attention in each of its three processes. (2) Retention is dependent on the degree of attention that was given at the...

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Attention and will, or action.

Pillsbury, W. B.

Pages: 149 –165

A function that cannot easily be dissociated from attention is that which results in action—what is ordinarily known as will. This chapter can be summarized as follows: (1) Action in general is dependent upon sensation. Movements only take place after corresponding sensations have been in...

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