See also:

• ATTENTION (from Lat. ad-tendo, await, expect; the condition of being " stretched " or " tense ")

ATTENTION (from See also:

• LAT

Lat. ad-tendo, await, expect; the See also:

• CONDITION (Lat. condicio, from condicere, to agree upon, arrange; not connected with conditio, from condere, conditum, to put together)

condition of being " stretched " or " tense ")  , in See also:

• PSYCHOLOGY
• PSYCHOLOGY (>Guxrl, the mind or soul, and X yos, theory)

psychology, the concentration of consciousness upon a definite See also:

• OBJECT

object or See also:

• OBJECTS

objects . The result is brought about, not by effecting any See also:

• CHANGE (derived through the Fr. from the Late Lat. cambium, cambiare, to barter; the ultimate derivation is probably from the root which appears in the Gr. «a urmu', to bend)

change in the perceptions themselves, but simply by isolating them from other objects . Since all consciousness involves this See also:

• ISOLATION

isolation, See also:

• ATTENTION (from Lat. ad-tendo, await, expect; the condition of being " stretched " or " tense ")

attention may be defined generally as the necessary See also:

• CONDITION (Lat. condicio, from condicere, to agree upon, arrange; not connected with conditio, from condere, conditum, to put together)

condition of consciousness . Such a See also:

• DEFINITION (Lat. definitio, from de-finire, to set limits to, describe)

definition, however, throws no See also:

• LIGHT

light upon the nature of the psychological See also:

• PROCESS

process, which is partly explained by the See also:

• GENERAL
• GENERAL (Lat. generalis, of or relating to a genus, kind or class)

general See also:

• LAW
• LAW (0. Eng. lagu, M. Eng. lawe; from an old Teutonic root lag, " lie," what lies fixed or evenly; cf. Lat. lex, Fr. loi)
• LAW, JOHN (1671—1729)
• LAW, WILLIAM (1686-1761)

law that the greater the number of objects on which attention is concentrated the less will each receive (" pluribus intentus, See also:

• MINOR
• MINOR (Lat. for smaller, lesser)
• MINOR, ROBERT CRANNELL (1839-1904)

minor est ad singula sensus "), and conversely . There are also See also:

• SPECIAL

special circumstances which determine the amount of attention, e.g. influences not subject to the will, such as the vividness of the impression (e.g. in the See also:

• CASE
• CASE, JOHN (d. 1600)

case of a See also:

• SHOCK, or COLLAPSE

shock), strong change in pleasurable or painful sensations . Secondly, an exercise of volition is employed in fixing the mind upon a definite object . This is a purely voluntary See also:

• ACT (Lat. actus, actum)

act, which can be strengthened by See also:

• HABIT (through the French from Lat. habitus, from habere, to have, hold, or, in a reflective sense, to be in a certain condition; in many of the English senses the French use habitude, not habit)

habit and is variable in different individuals; to it the name " attention " is sometimes restricted . The distinction is ex-pressed by the words " reflex " or " passive," and " volitional " or " active." It is important to See also:

• NOTICE

notice that in every case of attention to an object, there must be in consciousness an implicit See also:

• APPREHENSION (Lat. ad, to; prehendere, to seize)

apprehension of surrounding objects from which the particular object is isolated . These objects are known as the " psychic fringe," and are essential to the systematic unity of the attention-process . Attempts have been made to examine the attention-process from the physiological standpoint by investigating the See also:

• MUSCULAR

muscular and neural changes which accompany it, and even to assign to it a specific See also:

• LOCAL

local centre . It has, for example, been remarked that uniformity of environment, resulting in practically automatic activity, produces See also:

• MENTAL

mental See also:

• EQUILIBRIUM (from the Lat. aequus, equal, and libra, a balance)

equilibrium and the See also:

• COMPARATIVE

comparative disappearance of attention-processes; whereas the See also:

• NECESSITY (Lat. necessitas)

necessity of adapting activity to abnormal conditions produces a comparatively high degree of attention . In other words, attention is absent where there is uniformity of activity in accordance with See also:

• UNIFORM

uniform, or uniformly changing, environment .

In spite of the progress made in this See also:

• BRANCH (from the Fr. branche, late Lat. branca, an animal's paw)

branch of study, it has to be remembered that all psycho-See also:

• PHYSICAL

physical experiments are to some extent vitiated by the fact that the phenomena can scarcely remain normal under inspection . See G . F . Stout, See also:

• ANALYTIC (the adjective of " analysis," q.v.)

Analytic Psychology (See also:

• LONDON

London, 1896), especially See also:

• PART

part ii. See also:

• CHAP

chap . 2; also PSYCHOLOGY, See also:

• BRAIN (A.S. braegen)

BRAIN, &C .