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Rev. ed. |
| Description |
1 online resource (xiv, 589 pages) : illustrations |
| Note |
Title from PDF title page (viewed on October 21, 2008). |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and indexes. |
| Summary |
"This book is intended to fill a gap which exists today between the smaller texts and the reference hand-books. I have had in mind the needs of one of my own classes which devotes a year to psychology and includes students who have had no previous work in the subject. They have more than time to cover the present texts but are lost in the details of the larger works, particularly in connection with the nervous system, sensation, and perception. I have written for the student primarily and have not presupposed any preliminary knowledge. I have particularly avoided reference to current theories before they are explained and have indulged in no arguments on controversial matter for the benefit of colleagues rather than of the student. Opposing theories are discussed only as they may illumine statements of fact or where they have great historical importance and then only if the problem is real but is not settled. The book is more concerned with what consciousness does than with what it is. As opposed to the extreme behaviorism, however, I am not concerned alone with understanding the movements of the organism and the function of the movements, but also with understanding knowledge and the way in which it develops. It is my belief that the content of the science is the same whatever the point of view from which the subject be approached, and that this content is essential and changes slowly and then through growth. The theories are less important and likely to change from decade to decade. In contrast with some of the recent authors I have endeavored to supply the content and, while I have stated my own theories in some detail, have attempted to be sufficiently undogmatic to give the instructor opportunity to develop his own point of view"--Preface. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2008 APA, all rights reserved) |
| Contents |
The nervous system -- Sensation -- The original nature of man, and the means of modifying behavior -- Instinct -- Recall and the qualities of recalled experiences -- Attention -- Perception -- Memory -- Reasoning -- Imagination and dreams -- Feeling and affection -- Emotion and temperament -- General principles of action, and the will -- Work, fatigue, and sleep -- The self. |
| Access |
Use copy Restrictions unspecified star MiAaHDL |
| Reproduction |
Electronic reproduction. [Place of publication not identified] : HathiTrust Digital Library, 2011. MiAaHDL |
| System Details |
Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
| Processing Action |
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| Subject |
Perception.
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Consciousness.
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Human behavior.
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Psychology.
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Psychology (DNLM)D011584
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Perception (DNLM)D010465
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Consciousness (DNLM)D003243
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Behavior (DNLM)D001519
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human behavior. (CStmoGRI)aat300055168
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psychology. (CStmoGRI)aat300054446
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Psychology. (OCoLC)fst01081447
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Consciousness. (OCoLC)fst00875441
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Human behavior. (OCoLC)fst00962811
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Perception. (OCoLC)fst01057622
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| Note |
Available from some providers with title: PsycBooks |
| Other Form: |
Print version: Pillsbury, W.B. (Walter Bowers), 1872-1960. Fundamentals of psychology. Rev. ed. New York : Macmillan, 1924, ©1922 |
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