General characteristics of apperceptive combinations as compared to associations--The aggregate idea and its analysis--Concrete and abstract thought--Speech and thought--Understanding and imagination--Examples of primitive forms of speech in the language of primitive races--Development of apperceptive combinations out of associative ones--Inadequacy of the method of introspection in dealing with the psychological problems of thought--Psychology of language and race
CHAPTER IV · APPERCEPTION
From An Introduction to Psychology by Wilhelm Wundt.
