Some say that everything that is called a psychical law is nothing but the psychological reflex of physical combinations, which is made up of sensations joined to certain central cerebral processes... It is contradicted by the fact of consciousness itself,… — Wilhelm Wundt Copy Share Image
Physiology, in its analysis of the physiological functions of the sense organs, must use the results of subjective observation of sensations; and psychology, in… — Wilhelm Wundt Copy Share
The general statement that the mental faculties are class concepts, belonging to descriptive psychology, relieves us of the necessity of discussing them and their… — Wilhelm Wundt Copy Share
Physiology is concerned with all those phenomena of life that present them selves to us in sense perception as bodily processes, and accordingly form… — Wilhelm Wundt Copy Share
Hence, wherever we meet with vital phenomena that present the two aspects, physical and psychical there naturally arises a question as to the relations… — Wilhelm Wundt Copy Share
The distinguishing characteristics of mind are of a subjective sort; we know them only from the contents of our own consciousness. — Wilhelm Wundt Copy Share
Now, there are a very large number of bodily movements, having their source in our nervous system, that do not possess the character of… — Wilhelm Wundt Copy Share
We speak of virtue, honour, reason; but our thought does not translate any one of these concepts into a substance. — Wilhelm Wundt Copy Share
The animal kingdom exhibits a series of mental developments which may be regarded as antecedents to the mental development of man, for the mental… — Wilhelm Wundt Copy Share
Hence, even in the domain of natural science the aid of the experimental method becomes indispensable whenever the problem set is the analysis of… — Wilhelm Wundt Copy Share
Experimental psychology itself has, it is true, now and again suffered relapse into a metaphysical treatment of its problems. — Wilhelm Wundt Copy Share
In the animal world, on the other hand, the process of evolution is characterised by the progressive discrimination of the animal and vegetative functions,… — Wilhelm Wundt Copy Share
We know, from ordinary life, that we are not able to direct our attention perfectly steadily and uniformly to one and the same object...… — Wilhelm Wundt Copy Share
Child psychology and animal psychology are of relatively slight importance, as compared with the sciences which deal with the corresponding physiological problems of ontogeny… — Wilhelm Wundt Copy Share
Physiological psychology, on the other hand, is competent to investigate the relations that hold between the processes of the physical and those of the… — Wilhelm Wundt Copy Share
