Outline of general psychology / Robert H. Gault.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Gault, Robert H., author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Psychology.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (v, 474 pages)

Place of Publication:

New York, N.Y. : Longmans, Green and Co, 1926.

Summary:

"In preparing this volume we have hoped to be useful to two classes: to undergraduate students on the one hand, and on the other, to the body of intelligent readers outside of academic circles. There are many in the second group who want to know what psychology is about in our generation; what it has to say for itself. They are less interested in the methods that are peculiar to the science of psychology, than they are in the satisfactions it may provide for those to whom the behavior of men is one of the various languages of nature. The professional psychologists of a quarter century hence must be recruited from amongst the students of today. If the recruits are to be sufficient in numbers and in zeal to accelerate the development of the science, their enthusiasm must be kindled while the courage of youth is in their veins. Of every science this is equally true. Tedious method and scrupulous care for details must come, but he whose students have acquired the momentum of enthusiasm need have no prickings of conscience because he has deliberately gone about it to do the stirring up. We have tried in this book to avoid the appearance of adhesion to any ism. Ultimately every student of psychology is bound to become behaviorist or functionalist, or structuralist, or what-not. He may, indeed, drift into one or another rank without awareness of whither he is tending until he shall have arrived. But this development need not be hastened in the beginner. For him we must select our data and present the material unbiased, so far as that is possible have tried the experiment of introducing in this volume a chapter on the history of psychology. In this respect the book is an innovation amongst general texts. The material for this section must be drawn from the histories of physiology and neurology and philosophy; optics and acoustics and anthropology--and these are not all the sources from which strong influences have come to bear upon the science of psychology. Obviously, in view of the limitations of men's minds an adequate history of psychology is not easily compiled and we have found it difficult to condense the historical data into small space"-- Preface. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved).

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