ABSTRACT

The time has gone by when any one man could hope to write an adequate text book of psychology. The science has now so many branches, so many methods, so many fields of application, and such an immense mass of data of observation is now on record, that no one man can hope to have the necessary familiarity with the whole. But, even when a galaxy of learning and talent shall have written the text book of the future, there will still be need for the book which will introduce the student to his science, which will aim at giving him at the outset of his studies a profitable line of approach, a fruitful way of thinking of psychological problems, and a terminology as little misleading as possible. The present volume is designed to render these services.

chapter 1|42 pages

Introductory

chapter 2|31 pages

The Behavior of the Lower Animals

chapter 3|20 pages

Behavior of Insects

chapter 4|27 pages

Behavior of the Vertebrates

chapter 5|56 pages

The Instincts of the Mammals and of Man

chapter 6|27 pages

Habit and Intelligence in Animals

chapter 7|17 pages

Behavior of the Natural Man

chapter 8|44 pages

Perceptual Thinking

chapter 9|19 pages

Attention and Interest

chapter 10|30 pages

Imagining—Anticipating—Recollecting

chapter 11|24 pages

Emotion

chapter 12|13 pages

The Derived Emotions

chapter 13|11 pages

Disposition, Temper, Temperament, and Moods

chapter 14|16 pages

Belief and Doubt

chapter 16|18 pages

Reasoning and the System of Beliefs