Such being the nature of mental life, the business of psychology is primarily to describe in detail the various forms which attention or conation assumes upon the different levels of that life.

Such being the nature of mental life, the business of psychology is primarily to describe in detail the various forms which attention or conation assumes upon the different levels of that life.

In the perception of a tree we can distinguish the act of experiencing, or perceiving, from the thing experienced, or perceived.

It is more difficult to designate this form of conation on its practical side by a satisfactory name.

It may be added, to prevent misunderstanding, that when I speak of contemplated objects in this last phrase as objects of contemplation, the act of contemplation itself is of course an enjoyment.

Psychology is the science of the act of experiencing, and deals with the whole system of such acts as they make up mental life.

An object is not first imagined or thought about and then expected or willed, but in being actively expected it is imagined as future and in being willed it is thought.