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Outlines of Psychology By Wilhelm Max Wundt Etext Conversion By Nalanda Digital Library Regional Engineering College,Calicut,India Outlines of Psychology - Wilhelm Max Wundt Contents - Click on the Links Below or Use Introduction Bookmarks 1. Problem of Psychology 2. General Theories of Psychology 3. Methods of Psychology 4. General Survey of the Subject I. Psychical Elements 5. Chief Forms and General Attributes of Psychical Elements 6. Pure Sensations 7. Simple Feelings II. Psychical Compounds 8. Definition and Classification of Psychical Compounds 9. Intensive Ideas 10. Spacial Ideas 11. Temporal Ideas 12. Composite Feelings 13. Emotions 14. Volitional Processes Etext Conversion Project - Nalanda Digital Library 2 Outlines of Psychology - Wilhelm Max Wundt 15. Consciousness and Attention 16. Associations III. Interconnections of Psychical Compounds 17. Apperceptive Combinations 18. Psychical States IV. Psychical Developments 19. Psychical Attributes of Animals 20. Psychical Development of the Child 21. Development of Mental Communities V. Psychical Causality and Its Laws 22. Concept of Mind 23. Psychological Laws of Relations 24. Psychological Laws of Development Etext Conversion Project - Nalanda Digital Library 3 Outlines of Psychology - Wilhelm Max Wundt INTRODUCTION 1. PROBLEM OF PSYCHOLOGY 1. Two definitions of psychology have been the most prominent in the history of this science. According to one, psychology is the "science of mind", psychical processes being regarded as phenomena from. which it is possible to infer the nature of an underlying metaphysical mind-substance. According to the other, psychology is the "science of inner experience"; psychical processes are here looked upon as belonging to a specific form of experience, which is readily distinguished by the fact that its contents are known through "introspection", or through the "inner sense" as it is called if one uses the phrase phrase which has been employed to distinguish introspection from sense-perception through the outer senses. Neither of these definitions, however, is satisfactory to the psychology of today. The first or metaphysical definition belongs to a period of development that lasted longer in this science than Etext Conversion Project - Nalanda Digital Library 4 Outlines of Psychology - Wilhelm Max Wundt in others. But is here, too, forever left behind, since has developed into an empirical psychology discipline, operating with methods of its own; and since the "mental sciences" have gained recognition as a great department of scientific investigation, distinct from the sphere the natural sciences, and requiring as a general groundwork an independent psychology, free from all metaphysical theories. [p. 2] The second or empirical definition, which sees in psychology a "science of inner experience", is inadequate because it may g