The American Journal of Psychology Volume 11 (Paperback)

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: THE AMERICAN Journal Of Psychology Founded by G. Stanley Hall in 1887. Vol. XI. OCTOBER, 1899. No. 1. THE MEMORY IMAGE AND ITS QUALITATIVE FIDELITY. By I. Madison Bentley, B. S., Ph. D., Instructor in Psychology at Cornell University. Chapter I. Literature And Methods. The problem which is approached in the following page.s was suggested by the sections on "Central erregte Empfindungen '' in Professor Kuelpe's '' Grundriss der Psychologie.'' The author here expresses the belief that much work on memory has assumed, without sufficient cause, the presence of a memory image; too often, he thinks, the term 'memory image ' has been used to cover the remnants of past experiences, whatever their relations to consciousness. As a consequence, the interpretation of results has not always been reliable. In referring to the associational school of psychology, to which this mistake is, in part, traceable, Kuelpe contends that its lt- .f, t aber auch erforderlich zu betonen, dass die reproducirten Emph Bungen keineswegs die einzigen Hilfsmittel der Erinnerung sind" (op. eil., p. 188). And concerning recognition Kuelpe says (p. 212): "Wenn man nun in den Fllen, wo eine Empfindung a peri- pherischen Ursprungs daraufhin beurtheilt werden musste, ob sie einer anderen frher erlebten b gleich sei oder nicht, angenommen hat, es finde dann eine Vergleichung von a mit dem Erinnerungsbilde von b, das wir