Psychology : a general introduction / Charles Hubbard Judd.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Judd, Charles Hubbard, 1873-1946, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Psychology.

Human behavior.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xix, 358 pages)

Edition:

Second edition.

Other Title:

Psychology

Place of Publication:

Boston, Massachusetts : Ginn & Company, 1917.

Summary:

"This book aims to develop a functional view of mental life. Indeed, I am quite unable to accept the contentions or sympathize with the views of the defenders of a structural or purely analytical psychology. In the second place, I have aimed to adopt the genetic method of treatment. It may be well to remark that the term "genetic" is used here in its broad sense to cover all that relates to general evolution or individual development. In the third place, I have attempted to give to the psychological conditions of mental life a more conspicuous place than has been given by recent writers of general textbooks on psychology. In doing this I have aimed to so coordinate the material as to escape the criticism of producing a loose mixture of physiology and introspective description. In the fourth place, I have aimed to make as clear as possible the significance of ideation as a unique and final stage of evolution. The continuity running through the evolution of the sensory and motor functions in all grades of animal life is not, I believe, the most significant fact for psychology. This work is intended to develop a point of view which shall include all that is given in the biological doctrine of adaptation, while at the same time it passes beyond the biological doctrine to a more elaborate principle of indirect ideational adaptation"--Preface. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved).

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