The American Journal of Psychology

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: posed psychology-considered-a-science-of-the-related-self as a media tion by which the methods of both structural and functional psychology could be utilized and reconciled. The President's address was followed by a reception at the home of Prof, and Mrs. Miinsterberg. The morning session on Thursday was...
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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: posed psychology-considered-a-science-of-the-related-self as a media tion by which the methods of both structural and functional psychology could be utilized and reconciled. The President's address was followed by a reception at the home of Prof, and Mrs. Miinsterberg. The morning session on Thursday was opened by two papers on the definition of feeling; the first by Mr. Heury Rutgers Marshall, the second by Prof. Norman Gardiner, of Smith College. These two papers summed up the various views of feeling and paved the way for a general discussion, in which Professors Angell, Duncan, G. Stanley Hall, Judd and Royce took part. The present ambiguities and difficulties of the word were fully discussed but no satisfactory substitute was suggested. Dr. Hall proposed to cut the Gordian knot by dispensing with a formulated definition until we had more knowledge on the subject, since, as he believed, we were just now in need of facts more than of a definition. As a working definition, the one proposed by Miss Washburn was perhaps the one which could be most generally accepted. Excluding pain and adopting uupleasantness as the opposite of pleasantness, she wouH define feeling as an unloealizable and Ips - analyzed mental state. The discussion, while not furnishing any unified definition of feeling, brought out with great clearness the necessity of careful limitations in the use of a term so ambiguous. The next two papers were on Attention?the first by Dr. Burnham, of Clark University, on Interest and Attention, in wh1ch interest and attention were regarded as identical and as intense states of consciousness, present as aspects of growth. The second paper, by Dr. Hylan, of Harvard, was a careful and detailed experimental study of attention and its limitations. The next paper, on the Psy...