An Introduction to Psychology (Classic Reprint)

Excerpt from An Introduction to Psychology<br><br>The student taking up different text-books of psychology will find various definitions of the subject, and none that we can offer will meet with universal acceptance among psychologists. To those who pin their faith to definitions this may appear to be a serious matter, and it would certainly be an advantage if we could state in precise and generally accepted terms the exact nature of the facts with which our science is concerned. These differences of opinion, however, do not persist because psychologists are more muddle-headed than other people. There are very good reasons for the divergent views. Some of these reasons are in a sense extraneous, arising from the historical relations of the science to other branches of thought as, for example, ethics and metaphysics.<br><br>About the Publisher<br><br>Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com<br><br>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.