Psychology : the study of behaviour / William McDougall.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

McDougall, William, 1871-1938, author.

Series:

Home university library of modern knowledge.

Home university library of modern knowledge

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Behaviorism (Psychology).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (256 pages).

Place of Publication:

New York : H. Holt and Company, 1912.

Summary:

What is psychology? With what is it concerned? What are the questions it seeks to answer? How is it setting about its task? What are its methods? What progress has it made? Is it a science in an advanced stage of development? Or is it one merely beginning to find its feet, to take definite shape, and to map out clearly its programme of work? Above all, what may we hope from it in the way of addition to our power of understanding human nature and of contributing to the welfare of mankind? These are the questions which I shall attempt to answer in this book as simply as the difficulties of the subject will permit; hoping that some at least of my readers will be led to feel the fascination of the study and stimulated to pursue it further in one or more of its several branches.

Contents:

The province of psychology

The study of consciousness

The structure of the mind

The methods and departments of psychology

The study of animal behaviour

The study of childhood

Abnormal psychology

Social psychology.

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