심리학서설.AN INTRODUCTION TO PSYCHOLOGY, BY WILHELM WUNDT

심리학서설.AN INTRODUCTION TO PSYCHOLOGY, BY WILHELM WUNDT
An Introduction to Psychology
Translated from the Second German Edition
Author: Wilhelm Max Wundt
by Wilhelm Max Wundt, Translated by
Rudolf Pintner

AUTHOR'S PREFACE

It is not the intention of this introduction to psychology to
discuss the scientific or philosophical conceptions of
psychology, or even to make a survey of the investigations
and their results. What this little book attempts is rather to
introduce the reader to the principal thoughts underlying
present- day experimental psychology, leaving out many
facts and methods which would be necessary for a
thorough study of the subject. To omit all mention of
experimental methods and their results is at the present day
impossible. Yet we only need to consider a comparatively
small number of results of the first importance in order to
comprehend the basal principles of the new psychology. To
characterise the methods of this psychology it would be
impossible to omit all reference to experiments, but we can
and will omit reference to the more or less complicated
instruments on which the carrying out of such experiments
depends. I must refer the reader who wishes a fuller
account of the new psychology to my Outlines of
Psychology, which also contains the necessary bibliography
of the subject.
WILHELM WUNDT
LEIPSIC, June 1911.
TRANSLATOR'S NOTE
The present volume is a popular introduction to the
Wundtian psychology. It is a shorter and simpler sketch
than the same author's Outlines of Psychology, and it
should prove invaluable to the English- speaking student
who wishes to gain some conception of the subject before
entering upon a deeper study of the same. Its popularity in
Germany has been phenomenal.
In translating the work the translator has, as far as possible,
used the same English terms as those employed in the
translations of Wundt by Judd and Titchener.
He is greatly indebted to Mr. Robert Wilson, M.A., B.Sc., for
his advice and help in reading over the manuscript before
going to press.
RUDOLF PINTNER
EDINBURGH, May 1912.