Psychology From The Standpoint Of A Behaviorist

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Excerpt from Psychology From the Standpoint of a Behaviorist The present volume does some violence to the traditional classification of psychological topics and to their conventional treatment. For example, the reader will find no discussion of consciousness and no reference to such terms as sensation, per ception, attention, will, image and the like. These terms are in good repute, but I have found that I can' get along without them both in carrying out investigations and in presenting psychology as a system to my students. I frankly do not know what they mean, nor do I believe that any one else can use them consistently. I have retained such terms as thinking and memory, but I have carefully re-defined them in conformity with behavioristic psy chology. It is possible to retain attention, to redefine it and make it serve as a framework for presenting certain aspects both of the acquisition of any given type of organization and its later functioning. I have not done so because in an elementary text the less abstracting of partial functions one can make the better is the result for the student. Such abstractions are necessary for pedagogical reasons, but one should strive to get the beginner to view the organism as a whole as rapidly as possible and to see in the performance of each and all its acts the working of an integrated personality. I have tried to do this, but for the sake of clearness I have clung to the genetic method rather closely in the hope that if the student could grasp the genesis of the various types of organization he could put the organism together for himself. I should like to have had more space to consider the totally integrated individual in action, but by the time one has emphasized the necessary part activities, such as instinct, emo tions and habits, one has all but exceeded the limits of an elemen tary text. Another reason which deters me from enlarging upon this aspect of psychology is that the discussion of total activity involves a frankness in dealing with human nature which the American school public is not yet educated to entertain. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.