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The perceptive act is a reaction of the mind upon the object of which it is the perception.

The attitude of physiological psychology to sensations and feelings, considered as psychical elements, is, naturally, the attitude of psychology at large.

In a person who is open to experience each stimulus is freely relayed through the nervous system, without being distorted by any process of defensiveness.

Anticipation of movement, through muscular innervation and memory, by its retention of nerve impulse images, extend the present to the limit of a second or so.

I have bad reflexes. I was once run over by a car being pushed by two guys.

Now, there are a very large number of bodily movements, having their source in our nervous system, that do not possess the character of conscious actions.

The method of magnitude estimation provided a direct measure of sensation.

We see that every external motion, act, gesture, whether voluntary or mechanical, organic or mental, is produced and preceded by internal feeling or emotion, will or volition, and thought or mind.

Man is largely a creature of habit, and many of his activities are more or less automatic reflexes from the stimuli of his environment.

The sensory acts are accordingly distinguished by their objects.