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The present text aims to give a comprehensive view of the facts, principles, and theories of human psychology. Accordingly, the student will find that it represents the various points of view of modern psychology the analytic and the descriptive, the structural and the functional, the genetic and the physiological. At the same time the empirical results of experimental psychology are used as far as possible. Thus at the beginning the student is given a broader foundation for the understanding of mental life than could be given by a more limited point of view. From the very outset an attempt has been made to differentiate the metaphysical and the empirical tendencies in psychology. It is important that the student should know when he is indulging in naive metaphysical speculation, and when he is dealing with the results of scientific observation or the theories based upon such observation. While I am in sympathy with the present attempt now being made in some quarters to emphasize the objective and quantitative aspects of consciousness, nevertheless I confess the beHef that the quahtative aspect is still worthy of psychological consideration, and that, in order to get at this quahtative aspect, the method of introspection is still a valid method of psychological procedure. I am very much indebted to Mr. Schachne Isaacs, Instructor in Psychology, University of Cincinnati, for preparing the index, for reading the manuscript and proofs, and for many helpful suggestions in the preparation of the text. Acknowledgments are due for the use of illustrations taken from the following text-books: Villiger sBrain and Spinal Cord, J.B. Lippincott Co.
This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally-enhance the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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The present text aims to give a comprehensive view of the facts, principles, and theories of human psychology. Accordingly, the student will find that it represents the various points of view of modern psychology the analytic and the descriptive, the structural and the functional, the genetic and the physiological. At the same time the empirical results of experimental psychology are used as far as possible. Thus at the beginning the student is given a broader foundation for the understanding of mental life than could be given by a more limited point of view. From the very outset an attempt has been made to differentiate the metaphysical and the empirical tendencies in psychology. It is important that the student should know when he is indulging in naive metaphysical speculation, and when he is dealing with the results of scientific observation or the theories based upon such observation. While I am in sympathy with the present attempt now being made in some quarters to emphasize the objective and quantitative aspects of consciousness, nevertheless I confess the beHef that the quahtative aspect is still worthy of psychological consideration, and that, in order to get at this quahtative aspect, the method of introspection is still a valid method of psychological procedure. I am very much indebted to Mr. Schachne Isaacs, Instructor in Psychology, University of Cincinnati, for preparing the index, for reading the manuscript and proofs, and for many helpful suggestions in the preparation of the text. Acknowledgments are due for the use of illustrations taken from the following text-books: Villiger sBrain and Spinal Cord, J.B. Lippincott Co.
This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally-enhance the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Tags: sensations consciousness psychology attention experiences experience self mental perception sensation conscious time sensory object sense form objects judgment image fact
