| Description |
1 online resource (xi, 429 pages) : illustrations |
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| Contents |
Problems and scope of psychology -- Psychological methods -- The receptors and their stimuli -- Neuro-physiological basis of action -- The organs of response : muscles and glands -- Hereditary modes of response : emotions -- Hereditary modes of response : instinct -- The genesis and retention of explicit bodily habits -- The genesis and retention of explicit and implicit language habits -- The organism at work -- Personality and its disturbance. |
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Garrison-Morton (5th edition) 4987 |
| Summary |
This book examines psychology in the context of behaviorism and reports upon those things that any properly trained individual can observe. Behavior psychology has been called physiology, muscle-twitch psychology and biology, but if it helps to rid us of the constraints of present-day conventional psychology and teaches us to face the human being more directly, what name it is given is not a matter of much consequence. Behavior psychology has had a rapid development and is a direct outgrowth of work on animal behavior. While behavior psychology borrows from conditioned reflex methods and psychopathologists, it is neither an objective psychology nor a modified system of psychoanalysis. The present volume disrupts the traditional classification of psychological topics and their conventional treatment. Terms such as consciousness, sensation, perception, attention, will, image and the like are avoided by the author due to his belief that they are used inconsistently and have unclear meanings. Terms such as thinking and memory have been redefined to conform with behavioristic psychology. Also, in this text the author has clung to the genetic method rather closely in hopes that students grasp the genesis of the various types of organization. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2004 APA, all rights reserved). |
| Note |
Description based on print version record. |
| Local Note |
STJONEW |
| Subject |
Psychology.
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Behaviorism (Psychology)
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Watson, John B. (John Broadus), 1878-1958. Psychology from the standpoint of a behaviorist. Philadelphia, Lippincott [©1919] (DLC) 20000447 (OCoLC)14805134 |
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