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Outlines of Psychology By Wilhelm Max Wundt
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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
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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
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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
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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