A Manual of Psychology. Third Edition, Revised and Enlarged

In-16°, pp. XVIII, 769, (7), legatura editoriale con titoli in oro al dorso. Timbro lineare "Review copy" al frontespizio, strisciolina di carta con gli estremi dell'opera (ritagliata da vecchio catalogo di vendita), applicata alla prima carta bianca. Contents: Introduction; Chapt. I. The scope of psychology; Chapt. II. The data and methods of psychology; Chapt. III. Body and mind. Book I. General analysis. Chapt. I. Ultimate modes of the relation of the conscious subject to its objects; Chapt. II. Attention; Chapt. III. Primary laws of mental process. Book II. Sensation. Chapt. I. General characteristics of sensation; Chapt. II. Differentiation of sense-experience and its psychical significance; Chapt. III. Organic, cutaneous, and motor sensations; Chapt. IV. Taste and smell; Chapt. V. Light-sensation; Chapt. VI. Sound-sensation; Chapt. VII. The Weber-Fechner Law; Chapt. VIII. The affective tone of sensation. Book III. Perception. Part I. Perceptual process in general. Chapt. I. Instinct; Chapt. II. Perceptual process and learning by experience at the Perceptual level; Chapt. III. Imitation; Chapt. IV. Emotions. Part II. Growth of the perception of the external world. Chapt. I. Nature of the problem and its presuppositions; Chapt. II. Special problems: distinctions of separate things and the relation of a separate thing to its sensible appearances; Chapt. III. Spatial perception: (1) tactual; Chapt. IV. Spatial perception: (2) visual; Chapt. V. Temporal perception. Book IV. Ideationa and conceptual process. Chapt. I. Ideas and images; Chapt. II. Trains of ideas; Chapt. III. Memory; Chapt. IV. Ideation, comparison, and conception; Chapt. V. Language and conception; Chapt. VI. The external world as ideal construction; Chapt. VII. The self as ideally apprehended; Chapt. VIII. Belief and free imagination; Chapt. IX. Feeling-tone of ideas; Chapt. X. Voluntary decision. Index.