Psychology. Volume 1 : General introduction / Charles Hubbard Judd.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Judd, Charles Hubbard, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Psychology.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (402 pages)

Other Title:

Psychology

Place of Publication:

[Place of publication not identified] : Charles Scribners Sons, 1907.

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 physiological conditions of mental life a more conspicuous place than has been given by recent writers of general text-books 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. The clear recognition of this continuity which the student reaches through studies of sensation and habit, and even perception, is the firmest possible foundation on which to base an intelligent estimate of the significance of human ideational processes. The clear comprehension of the dominant importance of ideational processes in man's life is at once the chief outcome of our study and the complete justification for a science of psychology, distinct from all of the other special disciplines which deal with life and its variations. The purpose of this book may, therefore, be stated in terms which mark as sharp a contrast as possible with much that has been said and written of late regarding the advantages of a biological point of view in the study of consciousness. 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) 2005 APA, all rights reserved).

Contents:

The evolution of the nervous system

The human nervous system

General analysis of consciousness

Sensations

Sensations and their functional relations

Experience and expression

instinct and habit

Memory and ideas

Language

Imagination and formation of concepts

The concept of the self

Impulse and voluntary choice

Forms of dissociation

Applications of psychology.

Notes:

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (Charles Scribners Sons, viewed June 5, 2023).