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1 online resource (xi, 445 pages) : illustrations |
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Includes index. |
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Reprint of 1936. |
| Summary |
"This book is the product of nearly thirty years of teaching elementary psychology to undergraduate students. It is not a text written for the eyes of psychologists. It is an attempt to furnish the beginning student with an initial orientation in the material of this science. The mastery of this text will not make the reader a 'psychologist, ' but it should give the student a general background of psychological point of view and of psychological fact so that he can read or study more adequately, easily and correctly in any of the more advanced special fields of psychology. If this is true, the author will have been successful in everything he has hoped to accomplish. Furthermore the reader should have acquired an acquaintance with the special vocabulary of psychology. Like every other science, psychology has given special meaning to some words and has invented other words to describe special ideas. Without a knowledge of these special meanings, an intelligent reading of psychology is impossible. In this text there has been an attempt to describe, explain and relate both conscious processes and reactions. The reader will find frequent admonitions for him to do something or other. The word 'you' appears more frequently in this text, perhaps, than in any book you have ever read. After all, consciousness is a purely personal affair and, if you wish to study consciousness, it is only your own consciousness which you can study. Thus, throughout the text, there is an effort, by charts or by the presentation of problems, to set up in your own mind the sort of processes under discussion at the moment. This enables you to study each of these processes in your own consciousness and to study your own reactions. If this study is conscientiously made you should come out, at the end, with a better knowledge of yourself and of your own abilities and your own defects"--Preface. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved). |
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Psychology.
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Psychology.
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Psychology. (OCoLC)fst01081447
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Fernberger, Samuel Weiller, 1887-1956. Elementary general psychology. New York : F.S. Crofts and Co., 1937 (LSS)lss00442969 |
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