ABSTRACT
Throughout the earlier chapters of this book emphasis is laid in one way or another on organization as a fundamental concept in psychology. It is shown in Chapters 1 and 2 that in multicellular animals protoplasmic cells are interrelated and, as a result of their interrelation, are organized into forms of animal life which are capable of higher adaptations than those of which unicellular animals are capable. In Chapter 4 it is shown that, when new skills are cultivated by an individual, the muscles are brought into co-ordinated action through elaborately organized patterns developed in the nervous system. Part Two is devoted to a discussion of the many ways in which school subjects help the learner to acquire complex and well-arranged systems of thinking. In the immediately preceding chapters it is shown that the final result of individual development is a more or less completely integrated personality and that even internal conflicts and the consequent existence of abnormal associations emphasize the fact that the normal course of life depends on the proper organization of all the different phases of an individual’s personality.
