COLVIN and BAGLEY: _Human Behavior_, Chapters III, VIII, IX, and X.

KIRKPATRICK: _Fundamentals of Child Study_, Chapters IV-XIII.

MÜNSTERBERG: _Psychology, General and Applied_, pp. 184-187.

PILLSBURY: _Essentials of Psychology_, Chapter X.

PYLE: _The Outlines of Educational Psychology_, Chapters IV-IX.

TITCHENER: _A Beginner's Psychology_, Chapter VIII.




CHAPTER V

FEELING AND ATTENTION


=The Feelings.= Related to the instincts on one side and to habits on the
other are the feelings. In Chapter III we discussed sensation, and in
the preceding chapter, the instincts, but when we have described an act
in terms of instinct and sensation, we have not told all the facts.

For example, when a child sees a pretty red ball of yarn, he reaches out
to get it, then puts it into his mouth, or unwinds it, and plays with it
in various ways. It is all a matter of sensation and instinctive
responses. The perception of the ball--seeing the ball--brings about the
instinctive reaching out, grasping the ball, and bringing it to the