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- Publisher
- Charles Scribner's Sons
- Copyright
- Copyright © 1912 American Psychological Association
- Pages
- 12 –17
- DOI
- 10.1037/11629-002
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Abstract
The content of your experience at any given moment in your life history is exceedingly complex. Although the content of experience is demonstrably composed of a multitude of parts or elements in complicated organic interrelation, it does not follow that experience itself is complex. This has been a stumbling-block for modern psychology because of the frequent lack of clear distinction between consciousness and its object. This chapter begins with a discussion of the complexity of content and the complexity of experience before turning to a general classification of elements of content. In the examination of content of consciousness it is important to ascertain as definitely as possible how many sorts of elementary content there are. The four main kinds of content are sensations, relations, feelings, and images. Specific terminology for psychological discussion of these contents are provided. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2022 APA, all rights reserved)
Published: Aug 11, 2008
Keywords: psychological content; sensations; relations; feelings; images; psychological terminology