This text attempts a synthesis of two apparently contradictory views of psychology: psychology as the science of internal mental mechanisms; and psychology as the science of complex external behaviour (referred to by the author as "mental life"). Although many monographs on psychology or the philosophy of mind reject either one approach or the other (usually the behaviouristic approach), the author of this study argues that the two approaches are complementary, not contradictory.
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This text attempts a synthesis of two apparently contradictory views of psychology: psychology as the science of internal mental mechanisms; and psychology as the science of complex external behaviour (referred to by the author as "mental life"). Although many monographs on psychology or the philosophy of mind reject either one approach or the other (usually the behaviouristic approach), the author of this study argues that the two approaches are complementary, not contradictory.
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Fine Hardcover in a Fine Dust Jacket. A Giftable Book. No Flaws or Blemishes but minimal shelf handling and embossed stamp on lower corner of the front-free-endpage; Still Gift Quality. Appears Unread. Text is clean. 9.5 inches tall; 163 pages with Bibliography and Index. Where previous books have focused either on psychology as an abstract science of the mind or as a strictly empirical approach to behavioral problems, this is the only book that attempts to show how the best modern theoretical work on mental mechanisms relates to the best modern empirical work on complex,
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