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Format: Online-Ressource (2 p. l., vii-xv, 718 p.) , 27 cm

Content: "From beginning to end, this essay toward a systematic appraisal of psychology leans heavily upon a set of functional or dynamic facts which are derived from the study of the behavior, or of the modes of adjustment of living creatures to their natural, and in the case of men, both to their natural and cultural environments. But it does not, on that account, hold a brief for any of the more radical forms of behaviorism, or even for an excessive positivism. On the contrary, it maintains that there is a psychological or methodological behaviorism which is the necessary premise of all the isms. The laboratory leads straight to the description of certain kinds of functional activities which are quite adequate to the entire range of mental facts as revealed in human and animal performances. It holds, moreover, that some such point of view is the only point of view which will sustain the full burden of experimentation, and provide both the first and second order data about human nature which must be an integral part of any consistent plans for normative action on problems of personal, social, and cultural control. The mere mention of the word behavior will not, of course, inspire confidence. One of the reasons is that this word still excites men's emotions and their antipathy instead of their seasoned and considered judgments. It is a bitter truth, however, that the behavior of men is one of the most stubborn, and just now, one of the most distressing facts in nature. Another reason for suspicion is that the word experimental, when attached to psychology, implies a discrepancy between that which men say about the nature of human nature, and that which they persistently do with respect to it in the laboratory. It is this discrepancy which is the occasion for much of the confusion in psychology, and for restless doubt about the use of the word behavior in connection with mental facts. That which men do in the laboratory concerns, first of all, an examination of the performances of living creatures, and only by inference their minds,--to say nothing of their states of consciousness. But it has been difficult to gain for a verbal statement of this laboratory procedure, and for the concepts suggested by the data that are gained, the same dispassionate appraisal that is readily given to propositions in each of the other rapidly developing sciences. It has not been found any more profitable, of course, to render a psychological account of disenchanted clay than it formerly was to render a behavioral account of disembodied souls. But there must be some way to look at men and their doings from that total perspective demanded by the dignity of the subject, and by the demonstrated fruitfulness of the experimental method, which will be systematically significant; and it is the purpose of this book to try to find that way. The attempt is justified on the grounds that, in addition to the status of one science among all the rest, and of the urgent importance of its subject matter, there are profound social and cultural implications of a full view of the nature of human nature"--Preface. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2006 APA, all rights reserved)

Note: "Published ... under the auspices of the Graduate school in commemoration of the seventy-fifth year of the University of Illinois.". - Includes bibliography and author index. "Bibliography (and author index)" : p. 657-708. - Electronic reproduction; Washington, D.C; American Psychological Association; 2005; Available via the World Wide Web; Access limited by licensing agreement; s2005 dcunns

Language: English

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Format: Online-Ressource (xv, 679 p.) , 22 cm

Content: "This book describes psychology in actual operation, otherwise known as applied psychology. The author takes the reader to some of the affairs that concern him most in his daily life, to the domain of political and social affairs, to the hospital, to the schoolroom, and to the criminal court, to industry and to commerce, and to buying and selling. In fact, the author goes wherever experimental psychology is inclined, for it is the laboratory that has led most direction to the arts of practical control. The book is formally divided into eight parts; but, as a matter of fact, there are only three major sections. The first section (Part One) looks at the student himself in his daily living. The second section (Parts Two to Seven) considers the several more formal branches of applied psychology. The third section (Part Eight) will serve both as a summary of the whole book and as a repository for certain types of information which are the common property of all of the branches of applied psychology. We shall describe, for example, the general problems of experimental psychology, the problems of original nature and training, the principles of learning, and some of the larger aspects of human fellowship"--Preface. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2005 APA, all rights reserved)

Note: Includes index. - "General readings" at end of each chapter. - Electronic reproduction; Washington, D.C; American Psychological Association; 2005; Available via World Wide Web; Access limited by licensing agreement; s2005 dcunns

Language: English

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Format: Online-Ressource (xix, 607 p.) , 21 cm

Edition: Rev. ed (Online-Ausg.)

Content: "The original aims of this book were (i) to give second semester students a broad perspective over that whole field of research which they have come, in their first semester, to know in terms of its fundamentals, and (ii) to give students who can devote only a single semester to psychology, a reasonable orientation in the field at large. Both of these aims of the original edition have found, so the author hopes, a further expression in this revision. Part One has been entirely rewritten. As a matter of fact, because of the complete change which has been introduced into this part, the book may now commend itself to maturer students as an introductory text in psychology which can be followed by the sterner texts on the fundamentals of psychology. Everywhere the attempt has been made to let the reader surprise the psychologist at his work so that he can see (in our verbal pictures) just what the student of mental life, in times past, has meant to do, and what he now means to do. Part Two has been greatly changed and modified in order to bring it in line with the programs suggested in Part One. The whole section has been brought up to date and amplified by many pages of new material. The rest of the book has undergone less revision; but everywhere, new material has been added and obscure passages clarified. It is hoped that the new material throughout the revision will add a few lines and high lights to what, at the very best, must remain a sketch. This book, like its predecessor, is in no sense of the word, a systematic formulation of the field of psychology. Its more modest ambition is to help students become acquainted with the science in the large and to understand its shifting successes and failures"--Preface. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)

Note: Includes index. - Electronic reproduction; Washington, D.C; American Psychological Association; 2011; Available via World Wide Web; Access limited by licensing agreement; s2011 dcunns

Language: English

URL: Volltext