| Summary: | "At a more concrete level, a word here about the sequence of topics in the book is in order. As arranged, the book is intended to proceed from perspectives to methods to specific fields and specific problems -- such as motivation, sensation and learning -- and on to the molar fields of personality, adjusting and social psychology. The author has found this sequence to be pedagogically workable; and it has some logic about it, too. But it is by no means the only feasible sequence. The book can be assigned in other sequences, particularly when the instructor furnishes a bridging context. The nervous system (included here as the last chapter because many instructors nowadays do not want nervous systems in psychology) belongs logically -- and perhaps pedagogically -- in the early stages of the book. If the subject is treated in a course, probably the best place for it is after the two introductory chapters. If it is used there, the neurologically or physiologically inclined instructor will probably want to go further than the book does in bringing neurological material explicitly to bear on such areas as motivation, sensation and learning. It seems to the author that such supplementation will fit meaningfully into the various chapters as they are presently constructed"--Preface. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2007 APA, all rights reserved)
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