A First Book in Psychology (Classic Reprint)

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This book has been written in the ever strengthening conviction thatpsychology is most naturally, consistently, and effectively treated as a study of conscious selves in relation to other selves and to external objects in a word, to their environment, personal and impersonal. However he defines his science, every psychologist talks and writes about selves of myself and yourself as conscious of people, of things, or of laws and formulae. The psychology of self, which this book sets forth, is a conscious adoption and scientific exposition of this natural and practically inevitable conception. The book differs in several ways from its predecessor, An Introduction to Psychology. In general, I have tried to make a simpler, directer approach to the subject. In the earlier book, I treated psychology in a twofold fashion, both as science of selves and as science of ideas (or mental processes), discussing all forms of consciousness from both points of view. I have here abandoned this double treatment, with the intent to simplify exposition, not because I doubt the validity of psychology as study of ideas, but because I question the significance and the adequacy, and deprecate the abstractness, of the science thus conceived. In a second fashion this book differs from the other. I have tried to embody what appear to me to be the important results of so-called functional psychology. That is to say, I have taken explicit account oi lve c:Ylx.

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