Behavior: An Introduction to Comparative Psychology

John B. Watson

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Professor of Psychology in The Johns Hopkins University NEW YOEK HENRY HOLT AND COMPANY Copyright, 1914, BY HENRY HOLT AND COMPANY To my Friends and Teachers JAMES R. ANGELL and HENRY H. DONALDSON this Book is Gratefully Dedicated. in 2010 with funding from Open Knowledge Commons and Harvard Medical School http://www.archive.org/details/behaviorintroducOOwats PREFACE This volume on behavior is an elaboration of the eight lectures given at Columbia University during the winter of 1913. It has been written with the hope that it may be found serviceable in classroom work in psychology and biology. Needless technicalities and detailed references have been omitted. For this reason the general reader may find something of interest in its pages. The book must not be looked upon as a reference book or treatise. The treatment of the research material has not been exhaustive. For the most part no attempt has been made to give investigators detailed credit for their work. I have not, however, been able to carry out consistently the plan of omitting references. In most sciences which have existed for any length of time a general body of data becomes common property, and it is unnecessary to mention the original discoverers of the universally accepted facts. Some parts of the study of behavior are so involved in controversy that no results can be said as yet to be universally accepted by specialists in the subject. In dealing with these facts, especially in the chapters on the sense organs, it has been necessary to enter with some det

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