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On the other hand, ethnic psychology must always come to the assistance of individual psychology, when the developmental forms of the complex mental processes are in question.

On the other hand, ethnic psychology must always come to the assistance of individual psychology, when the developmental forms of the complex mental processes are in question.

Wilhelm Wundt
Hands, Psychology, Individual
Wilhelm Max Wundt (1969). “Principles of Physiological Psychology”

Many psychologists ... thought by turning their attention to their own consciousness to be able to explain what happened when we were thnking. Or they sought to attain the same end by asking another person a question, by means of which certain processes of thought would be excited, and then by questioning the person about the introspection he had made. It is obvious ... that nothing can be discovered in such experiments.

Wilhelm Wundt
Mean, Psychology, Would Be
Wilhelm Wundt, (2013). “An Introduction to Psychology”, p.75, Read Books Ltd

In the animal world, on the other hand, the process of evolution is characterised by the progressive discrimination of the animal and vegetative functions, and a consequent differentiation of these two great provinces into their separate departments.

Wilhelm Wundt
Science, Animal, Hands
Wilhelm Max Wundt (1969). “Principles of Physiological Psychology”

Hence, even in the domain of natural science the aid of the experimental method becomes indispensable whenever the problem set is the analysis of transient and impermanent phenomena, and not merely the observation of persistent and relatively constant objects.

Wilhelm Wundt
Science, Psychology, Analysis
Wilhelm Max Wundt (1904). “Principles of Physiological Psychology”

Contractile movements arise, sometimes at the instigation of external stimuli but sometimes also in the absence of any apparent external influence.

Wilhelm Wundt
Movement, Sometimes, Influence
Wilhelm Max Wundt (1969). “Principles of Physiological Psychology”

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.

Wilhelm Wundt
Ideas, Feelings, Return
"An Introduction to Psychology". Book by Wilhelm Wundt, p. 122, 1912.

The general statement that the mental faculties are class concepts, belonging to descriptive psychology, relieves us of the necessity of discussing them and their significance at the present stage of our inquiry.

Wilhelm Wundt
Class, Psychology, Inquiry
Wilhelm Max Wundt (1969). “Principles of Physiological Psychology”

Now the word-symbols of conceptual ideas have passed so long from hand to hand in the service of the understanding, that they have gradually lost all such fanciful reference.

Wilhelm Wundt
Hands, Ideas, Long

In the course of normal speaking the inhibitory function of the will is continuously directed to bringing the course of ideas and the articulatory movements into harmony with each other. If the expressive movement which which follows the idea is retarded through mechanical causes, as is the case in writing ... such anticipations make their appearance with particular ease.

Wilhelm Wundt
Writing, Ideas, Psychology

Physiology, in its analysis of the physiological functions of the sense organs, must use the results of subjective observation of sensations; and psychology, in its turn, needs to know the physiological aspects of sensory function, in order rightly to appreciate the psychological.

Wilhelm Wundt
Order, Appreciate, Psychology
Wilhelm Max Wundt (1904). “Principles of Physiological Psychology”

In Aristotle the mind, regarded as the principle of life, divides into nutrition, sensation, and faculty of thought, corresponding to the inner most important stages in the succession of vital phenomena.

Wilhelm Wundt
Science, Mind, Important
"Principles of Physiological Psychology". Book by Wilhelm Wundt, translated by Edward B. Titchener, p. 22, 1904.

Child psychology and animal psychology are of relatively slight importance, as compared with the sciences which deal with the corresponding physiological problems of ontogeny and phylogeny.

Wilhelm Wundt
Children, Animal, Psychology
"Principles of Physiological Psychology".

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