| Summary: | "'Not psychology, but to psychologize' represents the educational objective toward which this book has been written. This fact accounts for certain characteristics as to method of presentation, selection and arrangement of content, direct address, and changes in style, all of which contribute toward action. It also accounts for the fact that the book is not a dictionary of psychological definitions or an encyclopedia of psychological facts. There is no general agreement among psychologists as to what should constitute a first year course in psychology. The selection of topics has been made on the basis of experience in the classroom, from the standpoint that the aim of the course is not to make technical psychologists, but to make an introduction to psychology function in the life of all students both in and after college. This accounts for the frequent references to the beauty of mental life and the use that a given bit of knowledge may have in the direction of human energies, particularly toward mental health and education. The physiological part is thrown into the background and touched on but lightly, because a common mistake in the teaching of psychology is to waste the time for psychology in teaching anatomy and physiology; the essential facts about the nervous system are presented, largely through illustrations, in the Appendix. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2006 APA, all rights reserved)"--Pref.
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