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Mental Life: An Introduction to Psychology book cover

1st Edition

Mental Life An Introduction to Psychology

By Beatrice Edgell Copyright 1926
296 Pages
by Psychology Press

296 Pages
by Psychology Press

294 Pages
by Psychology Press
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Originally published in 1926, the aim of this textbook was the ‘interpretation of human behaviour and conduct’. Beatrice Edgell is an important figure in the history of psychology. She was the first British woman to receive a PhD in psychology, the first female psychology professor in Britain and the first woman president of the British Psychological Society (1930-1931), of which she had been a... Read more

Introduction.  1. Mental Life  2. Analysis of Mental Life or Experience  3. The Build and Functions of the Nervous System  4. Native Endowment and Environment  5. Primitive Values  6. Sensation, the Basis of Cognition  7. The Fundamental Processes of Intellectual Growth  8. Learning  9. Ideation  10. Some of the Emotional Attitudes Aroused by Value Situations Considered in Relation to Social Behaviour  11. The Unconscious and Adolescence  12. Thought  13. The Formation of Sentiments  14. Conduct and Character  15. Conduct and Character (cont.)  16. Appendix. Mind and Body.  List of Books Recommended for Further Study.  Index.

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Edgell, Beatrice

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