The Principles of Psychology¶
James, W. (1890). The Principles of Psychology.
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Primes¶
- Attention
- Attention is the selective allocation of a limited cognitive, organizational, or computational resource to a subset of available information, options, or tasks — what James (1890) classically described as "the taking possession by the mind, in clear and vivid form, of one out of what seem several simultaneously possible objects or trains of thought."
This sourceHenry Holt and Company. Verbatim source of the quoted definition of attention as the mind's "taking possession ... of one out of what seem several simultaneously possible objects or trains of thought"
- Attention is the selective allocation of a limited cognitive, organizational, or computational resource to a subset of available information, options, or tasks — what James (1890) classically described as "the taking possession by the mind, in clear and vivid form, of one out of what seem several simultaneously possible objects or trains of thought."
- Belief Formation
- Belief formation is the cognitive process by which an agent comes to hold a proposition as believed — the transition from neutrality, suspended judgment, or disbelief into doxastic commitment about the proposition's truth, a process whose modern psychological articulation traces to James (1890) and his analysis of "the will to believe" as a cognitive act distinct from both entertaining and asserting.
This sourceAnalyzes belief as 'the mental state or function of cognizing reality' and the difference between merely entertaining an idea and believing in its existence; (Citation-fix: the prior reference def described 'Vol. 1, Ch. 11: Attention' with an annotation about attention as 'taking possession' — that is the wrong chapter and topic; the belief locus in the 1890 work is Vol. 2, Ch. 21. The phrase 'the will to believe' is James's 1896 essay title, but Ch. 21 of the Principles is the 1890 belief-formation source the marker needs.)
- Belief formation is the cognitive process by which an agent comes to hold a proposition as believed — the transition from neutrality, suspended judgment, or disbelief into doxastic commitment about the proposition's truth, a process whose modern psychological articulation traces to James (1890) and his analysis of "the will to believe" as a cognitive act distinct from both entertaining and asserting.
- Curiosity
This sourceHenry Holt and Company. Defines attention as the mind's 'taking possession' of one out of several possible objects; canonical statement of selective allocation. No DOI (1890 monograph).
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