General psychology : From the personalistic standpoint / William Stern, Howard Davis Spoerl.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Stern, William, author.

Spoerl, Howard Davis, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Psychology.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xxii, 589 pages)

Other Title:

General psychology

Place of Publication:

New York : MacMillan Co, 1938.

Summary:

No science can progress without projecting from time to time a total picture of its field, including methods and data, points of view and theories. Present-day psychology urgently requires a synoptic view of this sort, considering the chaotic outcome of specialization and divergence in the psychological work of a generation. We have had many distinctive psychologies: elementaristic psychology and Gestalt psychology, verstehende psychology and analyzing psychology; topological and operationalistic psychology, purposive and mechanistic psychology; psychologies of the unconscious, of consciousness, of behavior, etc, but no inclusive general psychology. It is the function of the present book to give a new foundation to the general psychology of the human individual. The word "general" is here used in a double sense. It opposes one-sided treatments by doing justice to the varied methodological and theoretical approaches to psychological knowledge; and it deals with the general aspects, functions, and laws of human mental life in contrast to differential psychological treatment of the peculiarities of types, phases, sexes, races, and individuality. It goes without saying that the book is based upon authentic modern psychological research. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2022 APA, all rights reserved).

Contents:

General psychology

Special fields of psychology

Material and methods of psychology

Personalistic foundations of psychology

Fundamental concepts and principles

The development of the senses

Systematic view of specific sense phenomena

The interrelations of the senses

Illusions. Limits and limens of perception

Mneme

Primitive forms of memory

Free recollection

The acquisition and possession of knowledge

Remembrance

Thought

The principal contents of thought

Thinking in man and animals

Imagination

Special functions of imagination (dreaming, playing, creating)

Primitive forms of action and striving

The will

The course of voluntary behavior

Dispositions of will. Character

Suggestion

Performance and its periods

Attention

Practice and fatigue

Antecedent theories of feeling

Personal attributes of feeling

The temporal reference of feeling.

Notes:

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (MacMillan Co, viewed June 5, 2023).