The method of magnitude estimation provided a direct measure of sensation.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Sensorial perception, for example, certainly occurs with greater or less accuracy according to the degree of interest; it is constantly given other directions by the change of external stimuli and by ideas.
Sensation is amphibious: at the same time it joins us to and divides us from things. It is the door through which we enter into things but also through which we come out of them and realize that we are not things.
The attitude of physiological psychology to sensations and feelings, considered as psychical elements, is, naturally, the attitude of psychology at large.
Our understanding is correlative to our perception.
There is another common misapprehension that the magnitude scale is itself some kind of instrument or apparatus. Visitors will frequently ask to 'see the scale.'
People know accuracy when they read it; they can feel it.
The sensory acts are accordingly distinguished by their objects.
I have tried to present my sensations in what is the most congenial and impressive form possible to me.
The mental act of sensation which issues in reflex movement is so simple as to defy analysis.
Sensation is not the conduction of a quality or state of external bodies to consciousness, but the conduction of a quality or state of our nerves to consciousness, excited by an external cause.