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Quotes from An Introduction to Psychology — Wilhelm Wundt

1832–1920 Germany

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We call that psychical process, which is operative in the clear perception of a narrow region of the content of consciousness, attention.

An Introduction to Psychology (1912)

The whole task of psychology can therefore be summed up in these two problems : (1) What are the elements of consciousness ? (2) What combinations do these elements undergo and what laws govern these combinations ?

An Introduction to Psychology (1912)

If we take an unprejudiced view of the processes of consciousness, free from all the so-called association rules and theories, we see at once that an idea is no more an even relatively constant thing than is a feeling or emotion or volitional process. There exist only changing and transient ideational processes ; there are no permanent ideas that return again and disappear again.

An Introduction to Psychology (1912)

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