Psychology Today | 18.12.2025 05:07
William James, the father of American Psychology, famously speculated that when a newborn child has her first sensory experience with the world outside of her mother’s womb, it must be “a great blooming, buzzing confusion” (James, 1890). All that sensory information, all that light, sound, taste, smell, texture, etc., continuously bombards us day and night. Our brain has the difficult task of learning how to organize all of it so that we can understand the world around us.
