ABSTRACT
This chapter focuses on the 'higher' processes of consciousness and insightful behavior together with the 'lower' factor of instinct, and, more briefly, the relation of these to emotion and motivation. The duration of a self-maintained activity, as contrasted with an activity that is frequently reinstated sensorily, depends on the complexity of the system in which it occurs. Conflict of facilitations, is related to the problem of emotional disturbance. Emotion is generally thought of as awareness, a distinctive conscious process that is quite separate from intellectual processes. The chapter discusses modes of sensory-central interaction. The problem of instinct is the correlative of that of intelligence, or insight, and of learning. Insight is not distinct from attention or expectancy, just as it is not wholly separate from rote learning. The prompt learning of maturity depends on a phase sequence with a recurrent organization. Disruption of any link in this disrupts the whole.
