p.40 Only when we catch the motor response, or a direct reflex, in its simplicity,
is it a true index of the sensory stimulus in its simplicity.
p.41 "every stimulus has motor force"
p.78 From the beginning of independent life, movement is the infant's natural response to all influences.
p.313 attention, representing as it does the most refined and most central forms of motor
reaction upon revived mental content - that its adjustments are the medium of conception, thought, reasoning, of all
possible groupings and arrangements in the mind.
p.350-354 These three elements of the voluntary process are desire, deliberation, and effort...
desire implies lack of satisfaction of the impulse on which it rests... in deliberation, the complexity actually present in
deliberative suggestion passes up to a higher level. The elements of it became clearly pictured, co-ordinated in the attention,
and estimated, as to relative suitableness for execution... effort arises just after deliberation, and puts an end to it.
p.361 Every original co-ordination of stimulations involving desire, deliberation, effort, is an
act of attention. This, of course, cannot be a mere incidental or unessential fact.
p.376 In normal voluntary movement, attention need not
be given necessarily to the muscular movement itself, - although that is one type of voluntary attention, - but it may
be given to some other kind of sensation, auditory, visual, etc., which has come to play the leading part
in this particular movement, and under the lead of which the correlation which issues in movement is effected.
p.428-429 To make any movement voluntarily, the attention must be fixed
upon some kind of an idea which represents this movement... an idea that means the movement must be attended to.
p.431 only in attention... accommodation to new stimulations is secured.
p.433 Whatever attention may do besides, all the selections which consciousness makes are due to it.
p.434 All initiation of voluntary movement is a matter of attention
p.435 I have elsewhere argued for the view that reflex attention is an affair of motor association.
p.438 Increased intensity of sensation tends to draw the attention; and the attention increases the intensity
of sensations.
p.440 every mental state is a fusion of sensory and motor elements, and any influence
which strengthens the one, tends to strengthen the other also.
p.450 The office of attention, therefore, is that of fixing the content steadily,
on the sensory side, and at the same time of releasing the associated discharge movements, on the motor side.
p.452-453 Habit is the tendency of an organism to continue more and more readily processes which are
vitally beneficial... In order to habit, it has become evident, the organism must have contractility -
ability to make a response in movement to a stimulus - and then it must have some incentive to make and keep making the
right kind of movement. The essential thing about habit, then, is this: the maintenance of advantageous
stimulations by the organism's own movements.
p.454-455 Accommodation is the principle by which an organism comes to adapt itself to more complex
conditions of stimulation by performing more complex functions.
