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1 online resource (297 pages) |
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Psychology Revivals |
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Psychology revivals.
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| Contents |
Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Original Title Page; Original Copyright Page; Preface; Table of Contents; List of Illustrations; Introduction; The subject-matter of psychology and its place in a classification of sciences; Present-day interest in psychology; I. Mental Life; The definition of psychology; Methods of obtaining psychological data; Fields of psychological study; Programme of chapters; Exercises; II. Analysis of Mental Life or Experience; Cognition, feeling, and conation; The Individual experient or the subject; Illustrations of cognition, feeling, and conation |
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ExercisesIII. The Build and Functions of the Nervous System; The structure of the nervous system; The spinal cord; Functions of spinal cord; The brain; Paths connecting spinal cord and brain; Cranial nerves; Functions of the brain; The autonomic system; Illustration; IV. Native endowment and environment; Heredity; Endowment; Environment; Exercises; V. Primitive Values; Reflexes; Impulsive behaviour in general; Instinctive impulsive behaviour; Selective attention; Illustrations of reflexes and of impulsive behaviour; Exercises; VI. Sensation, the basis of cognition |
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Classification of sensationsTouch; Sight; Hearing; Taste and smell; Kinæsthetic or muscular sensations; Exercises; VII. The fundamental processes of intellectual growth; Retention and attention. Selection and integration; Consciousness of Likeness and consciousness of difference; Illustrations from child and animal behaviour; Exercises; VIII. Learning; Learning by experience; Habit; Methods of learning by heart and of acquiring skill; The Characteristics of a good memory; Exercises; IX. Ideation; Ideas, Tied and free; Nature and function of imagery; Hallucination and illusion |
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Biological view of memory-imagesLaws of association or suggestion; Memory or recollection of the past; Forgetting; Secondary conditions of association; Dissociation; Exercises; X. Some of the Emotional Attitudes Aroused by Value Situations Considered in Relation to Social Behaviour; Fear; Anger; Sociality, masterfulness, and subjection; Exercises; XI. The Unconscious and Adolescence; The unconscious; Current theories of the unconscious; Adolescence; Adolescence as the age of romance; Knowledge of self and other selves; Perplexity about standards; Adolescence and trains of ideas |
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Interest in the opposite sexAdolescence and Delinquency; Illustrations; Exercises; XII. Thought; Thinking as solving a problem; Thinking, remembering, imagining; Language, its origin and its functions; Thought in the solution of practical problems by performance; Exercises; XIII. The Formation of Sentiments; The influence of feeling on thought and of thought on feeling; Love and hatred; Illustration of a sentiment; Exercises; XIV. Conduct and Character; Desire and voluntary action; Conflict of desires; Free will and determinism; Self-determinism; XV. Conduct and Character (con.); Character |
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Temperament in relation to character |
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Originally published in 1926, the aim of this textbook was the 'interpretation of human behaviour and conduct'. Beatrice Edgell is an important figure in the history of psychology. She was the first British woman to receive a PhD in psychology, the first female psychology professor in Britain and the first woman president of the British Psychological Society (1930-1931), of which she had been a founding member in 1901. As the Head of Psychology at Bedford College, she established one of the first psychological laboratories in the UK. She also taught a number of women who went on to become p |
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Print version record |
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Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781317754916 |
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1317754913 |
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