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<div>EDITOR'S FOREWORD</div>
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<div> THE ENORMOUS GROWTH of scientific research and activity</div>
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<div> since World War II has included psychology as one of the</div>
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<div> recognized life sciences. Psychology now makes no small con-</div>
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<div> tribution to the rapid change in Western culture and civi-</div>
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<div> lization, a contribution that consists of a stream of new</div>
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<div> discoveries. There is also to be remembered, however, psy-</div>
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<div> ehology's contribution to its own maintenance. That lies in</div>
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<div> teaching, for every academic generation must train the next.</div>
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<div> The roots of psychology must grow if the branches are to</div>
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<div> spread and the seeds of new growth germinate in the class-</div>
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<div> room. Research would ultimately exhaust itself were adequate</div>
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<div> prior training of the scientists deficient. That fact is now well</div>
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<div> recognized in principle, if not always in practice.</div>
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<div> These short books are designed, in the first place, to make</div>
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<div>instruction easier. The ablest instructor is inevitably an indi-</div>
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<div>vidualist. He is never content to design his course to fit the</div>
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<div>idiosyncrasies of the other able man who wrote his textbook.</div>
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<div>A single text, moreover, seldom contains enough material to</div>
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<div>constitute all the reading a student needs. The instructor will</div>
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<div>wish to supplement his text and lectures and to have freedom</div>
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<div>in choosing what he shall add. The availability of many small</div>
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<div>books packed with solid reading enables the instructor to</div>
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<div>choose what he wants and makes their purchase by the student</div>
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<div>practicable.</div>
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<div> The other use of these books is to satisfy the intellectual</div>
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<div>curiosity of intelligent laymen. They are not so technical</div>
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<div>that professional men and thinking women who are keep-<br />
<div> ing an eye on the advance of civilization cannot use them</div>
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<div> to understand what the psychologists think and know. The</div>
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<div> philosopher, the historian, the lawyer, the physician, and the</div>
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<div> modern mother of grown children can surely employ these</div>
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<div> books in keeping up with the scientific times.</div>
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<div> Since World War II, psychology has been expanding in</div>
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<div> many directions, forming connections with social science, on</div>
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<div> the one side, and with biological and physical science, on the</div>
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<div> other. It has thus been said to be both "sociotropic" and</div>
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<div>"biotropic" as it turns now toward social science, now toward</div>
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<div>biological science. Scientific biology is older than scientific</div>
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<div>sociology, and thus biotropic psychology is older than so-</div>
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<div>ciotropic. As a consequence of its youth, scientific social psy-</div>
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<div>chology is at present less sure of itself than is physiological</div>
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<div>psychology or psychophysics, and for that reason Basic Topics</div>
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<div>in Social Psychology tend to stress the way in which facts are</div>
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<div>a function of method, to discuss how the facts were obtained,</div>
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<div>and sometimes to present contradictory findings. Such contra-</div>
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<div>dictions are no fault of the author, but rather that of the</div>
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<div>youthfulness of this science. With social psychology still wait-</div>
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<div>ing on maturity, these books give their readers an insight into</div>
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<div>a science that is still growing up.</div>
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<div> Edwin G. Boring</div>
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The Development of Motives and Values In the Child pdf epub mobi txt 電子書 下載 2024