| CHAPTER I | ||
| PSYCHOLOGY: WHAT IT IS AND WHAT IT DOES | ||
| SECTION | PAGE | |
| 1. | Common Sense and Science | 1 |
| 2. | The Subject-matter of Psychology | 5 |
| 3. | Mind and Body | 10 |
| 4. | The Problem of Psychology | 14 |
| 5. | The Method of Psychology | 18 |
| 6. | Process and Meaning | 26 |
| 7. | The Scope of Psychology | 30 |
| 8. | A Personal Word to the Reader | 34 |
| Questions and Exercises | 37 | |
| References for Further Reading | 40 | |
| CHAPTER II | ||
| SENSATION | ||
| 9. | Sensations from the Skin | 43 |
| 10. | Kinæsthetic Sensations | 45 |
| 11. | Taste and Smell | 48 |
| 12. | Sensations from the Ear | 51 |
| 13. | Sensations from the Eye | 56 |
| 14. | Organic Sensations | 64 |
| 15. | Sensation and Attribute | 65 |
| 16. | The Intensity of Sensation | 67 |
| Questions and Exercises | 70 | |
| References | 72 | |
| CHAPTER III | ||
| SIMPLE IMAGE AND FEELING | ||
| 17. | Simple Images | 73 |
| 18. | Simple Feelings and Sense-feelings | 79 |
| Questions and Exercises | 87 | |
| References | 88 | |
| CHAPTER IV | ||
| ATTENTION | ||
| 19. | The Problem of Attention | 90 |
| 20. | The Development of Attention | 93 |
| 21. | The Nature of Attention | 99 |
| 22. | The Experimental Study of Attention | 103 |
| 23. | The Nervous Correlate of Attention | 106 |
| Questions and Exercises | 110 | |
| References | 111 | |
| CHAPTER V | ||
| PERCEPTION AND IDEA | ||
| 24. | The Problem in General | 112 |
| 25. | The Analysis of Perception and Idea | 114 |
| 26. | Meaning in Perception and Idea | 117 |
| 27. | The Types of Perception | 121 |
| 28. | The Perception of Distance | 125 |
| 29. | The Problem in Detail | 131 |
| 30. | The Types of Idea | 138 |
| Questions and Exercises | 142 | |
| References | 143 | |
| CHAPTER VI | ||
| ASSOCIATION | ||
| 31. | The Association of Ideas | 145 |
| 32. | Associative Tendencies: Material of Study | 149 |
| 33. | The Establishment of Associative Tendencies | 152 |
| 34. | The Interference and Decay of Associative Tendencies | 156 |
| 35. | The Connections of Mental Processes | 159 |
| 36. | The Law of Mental Connection | 162 |
| 37. | Practice, Habit, Fatigue | 169 |
| Questions and Exercises | 174 | |
| References | 176 | |
| CHAPTER VII | ||
| MEMORY AND IMAGINATION | ||
| 38. | Recognition | 177 |
| 39. | Direct Apprehension | 181 |
| 40. | The Memory-idea | 184 |
| 41. | Illusions of Recognition and Memory | 187 |
| 42. | The Pattern of Memory | 189 |
| 43. | Mnemonics | 192 |
| 44. | The Idea of Imagination | 194 |
| 45. | The Pattern of Imagination | 197 |
| Questions and Exercises | 201 | |
| References | 202 | |
| CHAPTER VIII | ||
| INSTINCT AND EMOTION | ||
| 46. | The Nature of Instinct | 203 |
| 47. | The Two Sides of Instinct | 207 |
| 48. | Determining Tendencies | 212 |
| 49. | The Nature of Emotion | 215 |
| 50. | The James-Lange Theory of Emotion | 218 |
| 51. | The Expression of Emotion | 222 |
| 52. | Mood, Passion, Temperament | 225 |
| Questions and Exercises | 228 | |
| References | 229 | |
| CHAPTER IX | ||
| ACTION | ||
| 53. | The Psychology of Action | 230 |
| 54. | The Typical Action | 233 |
| 55. | The Reaction Experiment | 236 |
| 56. | Sensory and Motor Reaction | 239 |
| 57. | The Degeneration of Action: From Impulsive to Reflex | 242 |
| 58. | The Development of Action: From Impulsive to Selective and Volitional | 246 |
| 59. | The Compound Reaction | 252 |
| 60. | Will, Wish, and Desire | 255 |
| Questions and Exercises | 259 | |
| References | 260 | |
| CHAPTER X | ||
| THOUGHT | ||
| 61. | The Nature of Thought | 261 |
| 62. | Imaginal Processes in Thought: The Abstract Idea | 263 |
| 63. | Thought and Language | 267 |
| 64. | Mental Attitudes | 271 |
| 65. | The Pattern of Thought | 275 |
| 66. | Abstraction and Generalisation | 280 |
| 67. | Comparison and Discrimination | 283 |
| Questions and Exercises | 287 | |
| References | 288 | |
| CHAPTER XI | ||
| SENTIMENT | ||
| 68. | The Nature of Sentiment | 290 |
| 69. | The Variety of Feeling-attitude | 293 |
| 70. | The Forms of Sentiment | 297 |
| 71. | The Situations and their Appeal | 300 |
| 72. | Mood, Passion, Temperament | 304 |
| Questions and Exercises | 305 | |
| References | 306 | |
| CHAPTER XII | ||
| SELF AND CONSCIOUSNESS | ||
| 73. | The Concept of Self | 307 |
| 74. | The Persistence of the Self | 312 |
| 75. | The Self in Experience | 315 |
| 76. | The Snares of Language | 321 |
| 77. | Consciousness and the Subconscious | 323 |
| 78. | Conclusion | 328 |
| Questions and Exercises | 332 | |
| References | 334 | |
| APPENDIX | ||
| DREAMING AND HYPNOSIS | ||
| 79. | Sleep and Dream | 335 |
| 80. | Hypnosis | 341 |
| References | 349 | |
| Index of Names | 351 | |
| Index of Subjects | 353 | |
A BEGINNER’S PSYCHOLOGY