| Description |
1 online resource (251 pages) : illustrations |
| Contents |
Apperception -- Attention -- Association -- Perceptions of Space -- Psycho-physiological analysis -- Psycho-physical analysis -- The sensation as the mental element |
| Summary |
"This Manual comprises a series of experiments that can be performed by untrained students of psychology without supplementary explanation on the part of the teacher and without costly and complicated apparatus. The selection of the experiments was made chiefly with reference to their relative simplicity and ease of execution by classes of beginners in the study of psychology, but in part also with reference to their importance as illustrations of the phenomena and processes of mental life. The experiments thus selected have been arranged in the order best suited logically to present a consistent outline of psychology and best adapted pedagogically to develop such an outline in the minds of students first approaching the study of mental phenomena from the viewpoint of the psychologist. Where compromise seemed necessary, pedagogical motives have generally outweighed purely scientific considerations. The scope of the Manual has been purposely restricted to the analysis of the component processes of mental phenomena. The course of the analysis successively presents the essential features of apperception, perception, attention, the range and limits of consciousness, the association of mental contents and of physiological and physical processes, the relation of mental contents to these processes, and the sensation as the mental element. Problems peculiarly connected with the processes of mental synthesis and with physiological psychology have consequently been denied special consideration, although they are frequently mentioned where necessary for the explanation of the subject-matter germane to the scope of the book. The experiments are not intended primarily to constitute a manual of experimental psychology. Their purpose is to illustrate the facts and principles of psychology by leading the student, whether a beginner or an advanced student, to discover for himself the psychological facts upon which are based the principles of the science"--Preface. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2006 APA, all rights reserved) |
| Notes |
Title from original t.p |
| In |
PsycBOOKS (EBSCO) EBSCO |
| Subject |
Psychophysiology.
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Psychophysiology.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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