Who Discovered Imageless Thought

James Rowland Angell

What is the imageless thought controversy?

Thinking that occurs without the aid of visual imagesDuring the 1880s and 90s most psychologists believed that thinking always involved images. … The fact that tasks of this sort could be performed without the intervention of visual images gave rise to the controversial concept of imageless thought.

Which of the following thinkers believed that some thought is imageless?

Imageless thought Külpe believed that the research on thought processes up to that point, including Wundt’s study on the associations between thoughts and images, had been incomplete.

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