A Beginner's Psychology. E-book. Formato PDF Edward Bradford Titchener   -  Forgotten Books, 2017  - 

Psychological text-books usually contain a chapter on the physiology of the central nervous system. The reader will find no such chapter here; for I hold, and have always held, that the student should get his ele mentary knowledge of neurology, not at second hand from the psychologist, but at first hand from the physi ologist. I have added to every chapter a list of Ques tions, looking partly to increase of knowledge, but especially to a test of the reader's understanding of what he has just read. I have also added a list of References for further reading. It depends upon the maturity and general mental habit of the student whether these references — made as they are, in many cases, to authors who do not agree either with one another or with the text of the book — should be followed up at once, or only after the text itself has been digested. The decision must be left to the instructor. My own opinion is that beginners are best given one thing at a time, and that the knowledge questions and the references should therefore, in the ordinary run of teaching, be postponed until some 'feeling' for psychology, some steadiness of psycho logical attitude, has become apparent.

An Outline of Psychology. E-book. Formato PDF Edward Bradford Titchener   -  Forgotten Books, 2017  - 

Out of this 'curiosity to know' science is born. Men look out upon the world, and see that it is full of objects which call for investigation. Inanimate nature is made to reveal her secrets; laws are discovered in the fall of the stone, the ebb and ?ow of water, the spread of colours in the rainbow: physics, the 'mother of the sciences,' has arisen. The various living organisms have each their spe cial habits and their special structure, the observation of which is the starting-point Of zoology; and so on.

A Text-Book of Psychology. E-book. Formato PDF Edward Bradford Titchener   -  Forgotten Books, 2017  - 

It is, I think, unnecessary to apologise for the increase in size. If psychology is to be taken seriously, its prob lems must nowadays be treated in some detail. Besides, the T ext-book aims, within its limits and upon the elemen tary level, at systematic completeness; it is not a digest or redaction of a larger work, to which the student may be referred for further information. I could wish, remem bering some of the criticism called forth by the Outline, that I had a fully elaborated Systematic Psychology to fall back upon; but I am inclined to believe that, from the student's point of View, a text written expressly for the class-room is more satisfactory than the simplified version of a book written primarily for psychologists.