| Summary: | "For some time past the lack of a Text-book on Experimental Psychology has been keenly felt. The literature of the subject is now so scattered and so profuse, that a student must have at his command a small library of books and periodicals if he wishes to pursue a course of independent reading. In endeavouring to supply this want, I do not attempt to offer a "systematic" Psychology. On the contrary, I assume that the student is already familiar with the elements of general psychology. He may have had the opportunity of attending an introductory course of lectures on the subject which were accompanied by demonstrations, and in that case he will have observed how artificial is the line of cleavage between general and experimental psychology. I assume, too, that he does not approach the detailed study of experimental psychology in ignorance of the general structure and functions of the nervous system. In the following pages I may appear at times to have laid undue stress on purely physiological and physical considerations in their relation to the problems of experimental psychology. But the ultimate object, which has influenced me throughout, has been to describe the of psychological experiment, and to set forth the most important results that have been obtained in this field of research"--Preface. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved).
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