The fundamentals of psychology.
"This book is intended to fill a gap which exists to-day between the smaller texts and the reference hand-books. I have had in mind the needs of one of my own classes which devotes a year to psychology and includes students who have had no previous work in the subject. They have more than time...
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| Format: | Ebook |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
Macmillan,
1916.
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| Series: | PsycBOOKS.
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| Online Access: | APA PsycBooks |
| Summary: | "This book is intended to fill a gap which exists to-day between the smaller texts and the reference hand-books. I have had in mind the needs of one of my own classes which devotes a year to psychology and includes students who have had no previous work in the subject. They have more than time to cover the present texts but are lost in the details of the larger works, particularly in connection with the nervous system, sensation, and perception. The book is more concerned with what consciousness does than with what it is. As opposed to the extreme behaviorism, however, I am not concerned alone with understanding the movements of the organism and the function of the movements, but also with understanding knowledge and the way in which it develops. It is my belief that the content of the science is the same whatever the point of view from which the subject be approached, and that this content is essential and changes slowly and then through growth. The theories are less important and likely to change from decade to decade. In contrast with some of the recent authors I have endeavored to supply the content and, while I have stated my own theories in some detail, have attempted to be sufficiently undogmatic to give the instructor opportunity to develop his own point of view"--Preface. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved). |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (ix, 562 pages) : illustrations. |
| Bibliography: | "References" at end of each chapter. |