A Primer of Psychology

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英語

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This volume is intended as a first book in psychology. My endeavour in writing it has been to satisfy the two main requirements of a scientific primer : to outline, with as little of technical detail as is compatible with accuracy of statement, the methods and results of modern psychology, and to stimulate the reader, by means of questions and exercises upon the subject-matter of the separate chapters and of references to more advanced treatises, to further study in the same field. The Primer stands in the closest relation to my previously published OtUline of Psychology. It has, indeed, been written in response to requests, urged from many quarters by correspondents who approved the teaching of the earlier work, that I should prepare for use in high schools and normal schools a text-book conceived from the same general standpoint. Nevertheless, the two are distinct books. The exposition of the Primer is simpler, and its range wider. I have here followed current usage in treating of Perception and Idea as different processes, and in restricting the application of the phrase ' association of ideas ' ; while I have added chapters on Abnormal Psychology and on the Province and the Relations of Psychology. I have throughout laid greater emphasis upon the fact of mental evolution ; vi Preface and have availed myself of the

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