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A primer of psychology, revised edition.Attention.

Attention. The states of consciousness that are most familiar to us in the waking life are those of attention and inattention. It will be well, then, now that we have discussed the elementary mental processes, to look at attention, and see how these processes behave in the attentive and inattentive states, before we pass on to treat of the laws which govern their union in perceptions and ideas and emotions. After looking at attention as a state of consciousness, the chapter covers other topics, such as the three forms of attention (passive attention, active attention, and secondary passive attention), attention and affection, the bodily attitude in attention, apperception (i.e., a perception whose character is determined, wholly or chiefly, by the peculiar tendencies of a nervous system, rather than by the nature of the thing perceived), the working of attention, and the physiological conditions of attention. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2009 APA, all rights reserved) http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png

A primer of psychology, revised edition.Attention.

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A primer of psychology, revised edition.Attention.

Abstract

The states of consciousness that are most familiar to us in the waking life are those of attention and inattention. It will be well, then, now that we have discussed the elementary mental processes, to look at attention, and see how these processes behave in the attentive and inattentive states, before we pass on to treat of the laws which govern their union in perceptions and ideas and emotions. After looking at attention as a state of consciousness, the chapter covers other topics, such as the three forms of attention (passive attention, active attention, and secondary passive attention), attention and affection, the bodily attitude in attention, apperception (i.e., a perception whose character is determined, wholly or chiefly, by the peculiar tendencies of a nervous system, rather than by the nature of the thing perceived), the working of attention, and the physiological conditions of attention. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2009 APA, all rights reserved)
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Publisher
MacMillan Co
Copyright
Copyright © 1899 by American Psychological Association
Pages
73 –93
DOI
10.1037/10928-005
Publisher site
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Abstract

The states of consciousness that are most familiar to us in the waking life are those of attention and inattention. It will be well, then, now that we have discussed the elementary mental processes, to look at attention, and see how these processes behave in the attentive and inattentive states, before we pass on to treat of the laws which govern their union in perceptions and ideas and emotions. After looking at attention as a state of consciousness, the chapter covers other topics, such as the three forms of attention (passive attention, active attention, and secondary passive attention), attention and affection, the bodily attitude in attention, apperception (i.e., a perception whose character is determined, wholly or chiefly, by the peculiar tendencies of a nervous system, rather than by the nature of the thing perceived), the working of attention, and the physiological conditions of attention. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2009 APA, all rights reserved)

Published: Jan 1, 1899

Keywords: attention; states of consciousness

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