The Elements Of Psychology

Routledge is now re-issuing this prestigious series of 204 volumes originally published between 1910 and 1965. The titles include works by key figures such asC.G. Jung, Sigmund Freud, Jean Piaget, Otto Rank, James Hillman, Erich Fromm, Karen Horney and Susan Isaacs. Each volume is available on its own, as part of a themed mini-set, or as part of a specially-priced 204-volume set. A brochure listing each title in the "International Library of Psychology" series is available upon request.

This is Volume XXXII of thirty-eight in a collection on General Psychology. Originally published in 1905, the aim of this book is to help students to learn the general principles of psychology. Those facts which can most profitably be made the subject matter of a course in general psychology are presented with an abundance of concrete illustrations, experiments, exercises and questions, by which the student may secure real rather than verbal conceptions and may test, apply and make permanent his knowledge.

Introduction; Chapter 1 The Subject Matter and Problems of Psychology; Part 1 Descriptive Psychology; Chapter 2 Feelings of Qualities and Things as Present; Chapter 3 Feelings of Things as Absent; Chapter 4 Feelings of Facts; Chapter 5 Feelings of Personal Conditions; Chapter 6 Mental States Concerned in the Direction of Conduct; Chapter 7 General Characteristics of Mental States; Chapter 8 The Functions of Mental States; Part 2 The Physiological Basis of Mental Life; Chapter 9 The Constitution of the Nervous System; Chapter 10 The Action of the Nervous System; Chapter 11 The Nervous System and Mental States; Part 3 Dynamic Psychology; Chapter 12 Original Tendencies to Connections; Chapter 13 The Law of Association; Chapter 14 The Law of Dissociation or Analysis; Chapter 15 The Connections Between1 Sense Stimuli and Mental States; Chapter 16 The Connections Between one, Mental State and Another; Chapter 17 The Connections Between One Mental State and Another (Continued); Chapter 18 The Connections Between Mental States and Acts; Chapter 19 Movements; Chapter 20 Selective Processes; Conclusion; Chapter 21 Conclusion;

Edward L Thorndike