Year: 1917
Type: book
Abstract: THE title of this book might more appropriately, if not more concisely, have been "The Animal Mind as Deduced from Experimental Evidence."For the facts set forth in the following pages are very largely the results of the experimental method in comparative psychology.Thus many aspects of the animal mind, to the investigation of which experiment either has not yet been applied or is perhaps not adapted, are left wholly unconsidered.This limitation of the scope of the book is a consequence of its aim to supply what I have felt to be a chief need of comparative psychology at the present time.Although the science is still in its formative stage, the mass of experimental material that has been accumulating from the researches of physiologists and psychologists is already great, and is also ings.Within these limits, the collection of references upon Vv
Source: Macmillan eBooks
Author: Margaret Floy Washburn
Language: English
Topic: Primate Behavior and Ecology
Subfield: Social Psychology
Field: Psychology
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: hybrid
OpenAlex ID: W1576557123