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PSYCHOLOGY: WHAT IT IS AND WHAT IT DOES

SECTION PAGE

Questions and Exercises 37

References for Further Reading 40

SENSATION

Questions and Exercises 70

References 72

SIMPLE IMAGE AND FEELING

Questions and Exercises 87

References 88

ATTENTION

Questions and Exercises 110

References 111

PERCEPTION AND IDEA

Questions and Exercises 142

References 143

ASSOCIATION

Questions and Exercises 174

References 176

MEMORY AND IMAGINATION

Questions and Exercises 201

References 202

INSTINCT AND EMOTION

Questions and Exercises 228

References 229

ACTION

Questions and Exercises 259

References 260

THOUGHT

Questions and Exercises 287

References 288

SENTIMENT

Questions and Exercises 305

References 306

SELF AND CONSCIOUSNESS

Questions and Exercises 332

References 334

DREAMING AND HYPNOSIS

References 349

INDEX OF NAMES 351

INDEX OF SUBJECTS 353

A BEGINNER'S PSYCHOLOGY

A BEGINNER'S PSYCHOLOGY

PSYCHOLOGY: WHAT IT IS AND WHAT IT DOES

It is well for a man, when he seeks a clear and unbiassed opinion upon some certain matter, to forget many things, and to begin to look at it as if he knew nothing at all before.--LI HUNG CHANG

Open the book again! The exercise was worth while; but it was not quite fair. For the fact is that these great comprehensive words that we all use and all understand cannot be rigorously defined; they are too old; they have lived through too many changes; they have gathered about them too many conflicting associations. They pass muster in our everyday discourse only because we take them for granted and do not scrutinise them too closely. The expert alone can say what common sense means by mind; and even the expert must speak in general terms, qualifying and with reservations.

You will better understand the answer to this question when you have worked through the book. The answer will then have been given in the concrete and particular; now it can be given only in the abstract and general. Remember that it is given, nevertheless, in terms of work done and results obtained; it is not an answer that the psychologist makes up beforehand, but one that he himself has been led to in the course of his attempt to work scientifically upon mind. In brief it is this.

In fine, then, the problem of human psychology is threefold: to analyse mental phenomena into their elements, to discover the laws of mental connection, and to work out in detail and under all its phases the correlation of mind with nervous system.

psychological .

where the adjectives outside the brackets mean simply what we have already stated them to mean. When once the initial attitude has been taken, and the world to be explored has thus been determined, the methods are the same. The beginner in psychology will however find, again and again, that his common-sense self stands in the way of disinterested observation; and as the word introspection contains a reference to this self, he may prefer to drop it altogether.

You will notice, as you read on in the book, that back references become numerous. Be advised to look these references up! They send you, in every case, to a particular page, so that their finding is easy, and you can refresh your memory without any great loss of time; though, for that matter, it will do no harm to glance over the section in which they occur. If you, on your part, want to refer to some past discussion, consult the index; it has been made fairly full, and is meant to be used.

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