A text-book of psychology. Part 1 /
"The present work has been written to take the place of my Outline of Psychology. The Outline, which was stereotyped in 1896, had long passed beyond the possibility of revision, and the continued demand for it showed that there was still room in the science for a text-book which set experimenta...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
Macmillan,
1909.
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| Online Access: | Connect to the full text of this electronic book |
| Summary: | "The present work has been written to take the place of my Outline of Psychology. The Outline, which was stereotyped in 1896, had long passed beyond the possibility of revision, and the continued demand for it showed that there was still room in the science for a text-book which set experimental methods and experimental results in the forefront of discussion. I should have preferred, however ungratefully, to let the book die its natural death; for I feared that it would be impossible to recover the freshness and vigour of the first writing, and I knew that another issue would lay an oppressive tax upon future time and energy. But colleagues and pupils and publisher were insistent, and I finally decided to rewrite. The Text-book follows, in general, the lines laid down in the Outline. The only point that calls for special mention here is, perhaps, the scant space accorded to nervous physiology. I have always held that the student should get his elementary knowledge of the nervous system, not from the psychologist, but from the physiologist; the teacher of psychology needs all the time at his disposal for his own science. It is true that psychology, if it is to be explanatory, must supplement the description of mental processes by a statement of their physiological conditions"--Preface. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved). |
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| Item Description: | "The present work has been written to take the place of my Outline of psychology."--Preface. Includes indexes. |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xvi, 311 pages) : illustrations |
| Bibliography: | "References for further reading" at end of chapters. |