We cannot therefore say that mental acts contain a cognitive as well as a conative element.

We cannot therefore say that mental acts contain a cognitive as well as a conative element.

But unfortunately Locke treated ideas of reflection as if they were another class of objects of contemplation beside ideas of sensation.

Desire then is the invasion of the whole self by the wish, which, as it invades, sets going more and more of the psychical processes; but at the same time, so long as it remains desire, does not succeed in getting possession of the self.

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

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

It is convenient to distinguish the two kinds of experience which have thus been described, the experienc-ing and the experienc-ed, by technical words.