The elements of psychology / Edward L. Thorndike.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Thorndike, Edward L., author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Psychology.

psychology.

Medical Subjects:

Psychology.

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Edition:

Second edition.

Place of Publication:

New York : A G Seiler, 1922.

Summary:

"The aim of this book is to help students to learn the general principles of psychology. Those facts which can most profitably be made the subject matter of a course in general psychology are presented with an abundance of concrete illustrations, experiments, exercises and questions, by which the student may secure real rather than verbal conceptions and may test, apply and make permanent his knowledge. This book is designed to serve as a text-book for students who have had no previous training in psychology, who will not in nine cases out of ten take any considerable amount of advanced work in psychology, and who need psychological knowledge and insight to fit them to study, not the special theories of philosophy, but the general facts of human nature. This book is therefore eclectic in subject matter and in method. Description, definition, analysis, experimentation, comparative and genetic studies--no one of these can wisely be omitted. This book represents no particular kind of psychology peculiar to the author, nor any radical departures from the general usage of modern text-books on psychology. The changes from the first edition consist of alterations of form, especially in the case of the exercises. The content remains practically identical with that of the first edition"--Publisher. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2005 APA, all rights reserved).

Contents:

The subject matter and problems of psychology

Feelings of things and qualities as present: sensations and percepts

Feelings of things as absent: images and memories

Feelings of facts: feelings of relationships, meanings and judgments

Feelings of personal conditions: emotions

Mental states concerned in the direction of conduct: feelings of willing

General characteristics of mental states

The functions of mental states

The constitution of the nervous system

The action of the nervous system

The nervous system and mental states

Original tendencies to connections

The law of association

The law of dissociation or analysis

The connections between sense stimuli and mental states: connections of impression

The connections between one mental state and another

The connections between one mental state and another (continued)

The connections between mental states and acts: connections of expression

Movements

Selective processes

The relations of psychology.

Notes:

Includes index.

Online resource; title from PDF title page (PsycNet, viewed July 24, 2026).

Other Format:

Print version: Thorndike, Edward L. Elements of psychology.

OCLC:

123568143

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