| Summary: | Psychology: A Study of a Science is a report of the inquiries of many men into the status and tendency of psychological science. There were two major contexts of inquiry: Study I sought analytic understanding of many systematic formulations of current influence, while Study II sought insight into the structure, mutual interrelations, and associations with other sciences of the main empirical areas in which psychological research proceeds. The findings of Study I. Conceptual and Systematic have already been published as the first three volumes of Psychology: A Study of a Science. This fifth volume, along with the fourth and sixth, comprise Study II. Empirical Substructure and Relations with Other Sciences. A postscript volume by the Study Director completes the series. Overall, each study, volume and essay is a self-contained unit which may be read with profit. But a nice appreciation of any of the units demands that it be seen in relation to the total Study. Volume 5, in particular, explores the areas of perception, learning, behavior, motivation, and personality. Social relationships, schizophrenia, clinical psychology and human engineering are also examined. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2004 APA, all rights reserved).
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