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object; it is the mental completion of a sensation, which would otherwise have nothing but a momentary existence coextensive with the duration of the stimulus, and is intermediate between sensation and the " ideal revival," which can reinstate a perceptual consciousness when the object is no longer See also:

PRESENT

present . This narrow and precise usage of the term " See also:

PERCEPTION (from Lat. percipere, to perceive)

perception " is due to See also:

Thomas See also:

Reid, whose view has been generally adopted in principle by See also:

MODERN

modern psychologists . On the other See also:

hand some psychologists decline to accept the view that the three processes are delimited by See also:

sharp lines of cleavage . It is held on the one hand that sensation is in fact impossible as a purely subjective See also:

state without See also:

COGNITION (Latin cognitio, from cognoscere, to become acquainted with)

cognition; on the other that sensation and perception differ only in degree, perception being the more complex . The former view admits, which the latter practically denies, the distinction in principle . Among those who adopt the second view are E . B . Titchener and See also:

William See also:

James . James (Principles of Psychology, ii . 76) compares sensation and perception as " the barer and the richer consciousness," and says that " beyond the first crude sensation all our consciousness is a See also:

MATTER

matter of See also:

SUGGESTION

suggestion, and the various suggestions shade gradually into each other, being one and all products of the same psychological machinery of association." Similarly See also:

WUNDT, WILHELM MAX (1832— )

Wundt and Titchener incline to obliterate the distinction between perception and ideal revival . See also:

Prior to Reid, the word perception had a See also:

long See also:

HISTORY

history in the wider sense of cognition in See also:

general . See also:

Locke and See also:

Hume both use it in this sense, and regard thinking as that See also:

SPECIAL

special See also:

KIND (O. E. ge-cynde, from the same root as is seen in " kin," supra)

kind of perception which implies deliberate See also:

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

attention .

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