The psychology of animals in relation to human psychology
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The psychology of animals in relation to human psychology
(International library of psychology, 59 . Comparative psychology ; 1)
Routledge, 1999
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Reprint. Originally published: K. Paul, Trench, Trubner , 1932
Includes bibliographical references and indexes
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ISBN 9780415209779
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This is Volume I of four in the Comparative Psychology series. First published in 1932, this study offers a short description of parts of animal psychology as are of interest to a wider public, at the same time exhibiting the many and various relations existing between human and animal psychology.
Table of Contents
- Chapter 1 Difference between living and non-living nature.-The "End" (aim, object, purpose, goal) and the "Whole" as biological fictions.-"The End determines the Means", and "the Whole determines the Parts"
- Chapter 2 General remarks on scientific statement, and more concerning the fictional mode of regarding biological facts.-Consciousness, freedom of will, psyche
- Chapter 3 Individuality-the ciliated slipper-animalcule (Paramecium) as individual
- Chapter 4 More concerning the individuality of animals possessing numerous like organs of locomotion.-The free-swimming Turbellaria and Starfish
- Chapter 5 The individuality of jointed animals, annelids, and arthropods.-The supposed antagonism between the right and left side of the body.-Theories of tropism, and the theory of tropotaxis
- Chapter 6 Understanding and explaining.-The attempt at sympathetic understanding of animal behaviour.-Intra-central orientation and disorientation of animals.-Comparative physiology of the senses and nerves in animal psychology
- Chapter 7 The animal's grasp of wholes.-Super-individual wholes
- Chapter 8 Primary and secondary knowledge.-Instinctive and experiential activity
- Chapter 9 Instinct and experience in human beings.-Behaviour indicating insight in man and animals
- Chapter 10 Animal sociology.-Superindividual wholes: marriage, family, society, in man and animals
- Chapter 11 Spontaneity and attention.-Understanding and communication.-Emotion and emotional transference.-Personal familiarity.-The will to superiority
- Chapter 12 The human being as investigating subject, and object of investigation
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: set ISBN 9780415211277
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The volumes in this set take a comparative approach to human and animal psychology and give a valuable insight into thinking about similarities and differences between humans and animals prevalent in the 1920s and 1930s.
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