General psychology / by Walter S. Hunter.
"In this textbook I have adhered closely to the subject-matter and method which have proved successful in my own semester courses. I have found that students desire more than general formulas and principles. They are far more interested in accounts of experimental facts and procedures and are w...
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| Format: | Ebook |
| Language: | English |
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Chicago, Ill. :
University of Chicago Press,
[1923]
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| Edition: | Revised edition. |
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| Online Access: | APA PsycBooks |
| Summary: | "In this textbook I have adhered closely to the subject-matter and method which have proved successful in my own semester courses. I have found that students desire more than general formulas and principles. They are far more interested in accounts of experimental facts and procedures and are willing to leave the other for the manuals of advanced students. The present book seeks to meet this situation and still remain a textbook and not become a treatise. It has been written in the conviction that too much stress is placed upon normal adult psychology (pure psychology) in our introductory courses. Psychology is far more than normal adult psychology. Yet many of its readers retain the impression that the chief topic is sensation and space perception. The present book seeks to forestall these misconceptions in the student by presenting a general survey of the science while still stressing the customary side of the subject. From the theoretical standpoint our position is one of a combination of behaviorism and structuralism. I see no need for forcing the subject-matter into one or the other mold. Neither is large enough alone. In preparing this revised edition, only a slight expansion over the size of the previous volume has been made. Most of this increase results from amplifications of already present material rather than from the addition of strictly new subjects. The chapters which have been most modified are those on "Animal Psychology," "Individual and Applied Psychology," and "Imagination and the Sequence of Experiences." In connection with this latter topic I have developed the conception of a self-stimulation of receptors as a process of importance in association and thought, and I have also sought to relate for the student those factors, usually treated in isolation, which influence the succession of conscious focal contents, of reflex mechanisms, and of the contents of the typical train of associations"--Preface. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2005 APA, all rights reserved). |
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| Item Description: | "References" at the end of each chapter. |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xv, 368 pages) : illustrations |
| Format: | Mode of access: World Wide Web. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |