Psychology : an introductory study of the structure and function of human consciousness / James Rowland Angell.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Angell, James Rowland, 1869-1949, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Consciousness.

Mind and body.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (ix, 468 pages)

Edition:

Fourth edition.

Place of Publication:

New York, New York : Henry Holt and Co, Inc., 1904.

Summary:

Psychologists have hitherto devoted the larger part of their energy to investigating the structure of the mind. Of late, however, there has been manifest a disposition to deal more fully with its functional and genetic phases. To determine how consciousness develops and how it operates is felt to be quite as important as the discovery of its constituent elements. This book attempts to set forth in an elementary way the generally accepted facts and principles bearing upon these adjacent fields of psychological inquiry, so far as they pertain to the mind of man. Inasmuch as it is mental activity, rather than mental structure, which has immediate significance for thought and conduct, it is hoped that students of philosophy, as well as students of education, may find the book especially useful. The differing conditions under which introductory courses in psychology are offered at various institutions render it desirable that a text-book should be adaptable to more than one set of circumstances. The present text has accordingly been arranged with the purpose of permitting considerable flexibility in the emphasis laid upon the several portions of the subject. This fact accounts for an amount of repetition and cross-reference which otherwise would have been regarded as unnecessary.

Contents:

The problems and methods of psychology

The psychophysical organism and the nervous system

Mind, neural action and habit

Attention, discrimination, and association

Sensation

Perception

The perception of spatial and temporal relations

Imagination

Memory

The consciousness of meaning and the formation of concepts

Judgment and the elements of reasoning

The forms and functions of reasoning

The affective elements of consciousness

Feeling and the general principles of affective consciousness

Reflex action and instinct

The important human instincts

Nature of impulse

The nature of emotion

General theory of emotion

Elementary features of volition

Relation of volition to interest, effort, and desire

Character and the will

The self.

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