Psychology: The Science of Mental Activity, Lund, 1927, 1st Edition

Description: Psychology: The Science of Mental Activity, Lund, 1927, 1st Edition Condition: Pages are pristine. Binding is tight. It appears to be unread. It is almost like new. The only signs of wear / age is slight yellowing of pages and very minor marks on cover. ****************** The first part of the book treats of the nervous system and the "activities which depend upon native disposition and inherent nervous organization:" reflex action, instinct, emotion, feeling, purposive and voluntary activity, the senses, and attention. The second part deals with the "higher functions and the more strictly mental (i.e., more variable and less overt) activities." In this part Hollingworth's principle of redintegration is emphasized as meeting the deficiencies of the laws of contiguity and exercise and effect, and as accounting in a more satisfactory manner than does any other principle for the nature and operation of mental and physical sequences. The subjects treated in this section are: learning and the acquisition of skill, habit, memory, intelligence ("the modifiability of the nervous system and the general adaptability and resourcefulness which such modifiability effects in the range of the individual's responses"), association, perception, imagery, imagination and dreams, language and meaning, thinking, belief and confidence. In the final chapter the problem of personality (those general characteristics of mental and physical constitution which distinguish one individual from another) is considered with some discussion of types, organization, dissociation and hypnosis. At the end of each chapter is a list of questions and exercises and a brief list of references.

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