| 单词 | mental chemistry |
| 释义 | > as lemmasmental chemistry mental chemistry n. Psychology the psychological processes by which complex ideas, sensations, etc., are generated from simple ones (without being merely the sum of them), conceived of as analogous to certain chemical phenomena. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > psychology > psychology of ideas > [noun] > formation of complex ideas mental chemistry1843 1843 J. S. Mill Syst. Logic II. vi. iv. 503 These therefore are cases of mental chemistry: in which it is proper to say that the simple ideas generate, rather than that they compose, the complex ones. 1890 W. James Princ. Psychol. II. xx. 202 Discrimination, association, [etc.]..are quite capable of giving us all the space-perceptions we have so far studied, without the aid of any mysterious ‘mental chemistry’. 1948 R. S. Woodworth Contemp. Schools Psychol. (ed. 2) iii. 44 This idea of a ‘mental chemistry’ reappeared from time to time in later psychological theories. 1990 Sci. Amer. Dec. 48/3 Their [sc. structuralists'] view has been described as ‘mental chemistry’ because it assumes that perceptions can be analyzed component by component, much as molecules can be broken down into atoms. < as lemmas |
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