Physiological psychology.
"This book constitutes, in a sense, a revision of the author's Introduction to Physiological Psychology, published in 1934, but its advance over that work is sufficient to warrant the new title. Besides adding new chapters and sections to give the book a more comprehensive scope, the conte...
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| Format: | Ebook |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
D. Van Nostrand Co.,
[1948]
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| Series: | Textbooks on psychology.
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| Online Access: | APA PsycBooks |
| Summary: | "This book constitutes, in a sense, a revision of the author's Introduction to Physiological Psychology, published in 1934, but its advance over that work is sufficient to warrant the new title. Besides adding new chapters and sections to give the book a more comprehensive scope, the content of the earlier treatment has been entirely reworked so as to sharpen the exposition. Discussion of individual topics is brief, but is annotated by footnote references to authoritative sources and by supplementary reading lists at chapter endings. As a text, the book has a two-fold purpose: (1) to provide psychologists with a survey of pertinent physiological fact and theory, and (2) to give a systematic orientation to the study of psychophysiology. Both of these are necessary objectives. Even students with considerable background in physiology and neurology are unlikely to have had emphasis on those topics of most use to them as psychologists. The systematic treatment of the problems of psychophysiology is equally essential, for without it this difficult field appears very chaotic. Such systematization can be accomplished in several ways. The author has used the concept of homcostasis as a basic integrating principle, and has considered the neuromuscular adjustments of the total organism as acting similarly to those of more limited organ systems in the maintenance of essential "steady" states. Treatments of the mechanisms of learning, emotion and thought draw upon the constructs of motor psychology, which asserts that all behavioral adjustments, including those of "consciousness," have motor accompaniments. The teacher who wishes to emphasize instead the central control mechanisms or the sensory processes may readily do so, as the system preferred by the author is concentrated into one part of the book. The text is intended to cover the content of a full year course, and is divided into four parts. Teachers who used the previous edition in semester courses have indicated several feasible combinations of parts. These are: (a) Parts I and II, for those primarily interested in sensory process; (b) Parts II and III, for those more interested in central control mechanisms; (c) Parts I and IV, for those interested in the motor aspects of total performance. In addition, it is possible to select particular chapters from all sections with a more general end in view"--Preface. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2006 APA, all rights reserved). |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (x, 530 pages) : illustrations. |
| Format: | Mode of access: World Wide Web. |
| Bibliography: | Includes "Selected references.". |