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Title: Psychology
A Study Of Mental Life

Author: Robert S. Woodworth

Release Date: February 25, 2010 [EBook #31382]

Language: English

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[Transcriber's notes]
This text is derived from an unedited version in the Internet Archive.

Page numbers are indicated by numbers enclosed in curly braces,
e.g. {99}. They have been located where page breaks occurred in the
original book.

Labels and text in a figure that are not mentioned in the figure
description are included as a comma separated list, as in "(Figure
text: cochlea, vestibule, 3 Canals)".

Lengthy footnotes and quotations are indented.

Obvious misspellings and typos are corrected but inconsistent spelling
is not resolved, as in coordinate and cooerdinate.

Here are the definitions of some unfamiliar words (to me).

amour propre
self-esteem; self-respect.

esprit de corps
camaraderie, bonding, solidarity, fellowship.

motility (motile)
moving or capable of moving spontaneously.

unwonted
unusual.
[End Transcribers's notes]

PSYCHOLOGY
A STUDY OF MENTAL LIFE

BY
ROBERT S. WOODWORTH, Ph. D.
_Professor of Psychology in Columbia University_

NEW YORK
HENRY HOLT AND COMPANY
1921

COPYRIGHT, 1921
BY
HENRY HOLT AND COMPANY

Printed in the U.S.A.

PREFACE

A few words to the reader are in order. In the first place, something
like an apology is due for the free way in which the author has drawn
upon the original work of many fellow-psychologists, without any
mention of their names. This is practically unavoidable in a book
intended for the beginner, but the reader may well be informed of the
fact, and cautioned not to credit the content of the book to the
writer of it. The author's task has been that of selecting from the
large mass of psychological information now available, much of it new,
whatever seemed most suitable for introducing the subject to the
reader. The book aims to represent the present state of a very active
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