This is Volume I of four in the Comparative Psychology series. First published in 1932, this study offers a short description of parts of animal psychology as are of interest to a wider public, at the same time exhibiting the many and various relations existing between human and animal psychology.
Autorentext
F. Alverdes
Zusammenfassung
First published in 1999. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Inhalt
Chapter 1 Difference between living and non-living nature.-The "End" (aim, object, purpose, goal) and the "Whole" as biological fictions.-"The End determines the Means", and "the Whole determines the Parts"; Chapter 2 General remarks on scientific statement, and more concerning the fictional mode of regarding biological facts.-Consciousness, freedom of will, psyche; Chapter 3 Individuality-the ciliated slipper-animalcule (Paramecium) as individual; Chapter 4 More concerning the individuality of animals possessing numerous like organs of locomotion.-The free-swimming Turbellaria and Starfish; Chapter 5 The individuality of jointed animals, annelids, and arthropods.-The supposed antagonism between the right and left side of the body.-Theories of tropism, and the theory of tropotaxis; Chapter 6 Understanding and explaining.-The attempt at sympathetic understanding of animal behaviour.-Intra-central orientation and disorientation of animals.-Comparative physiology of the senses and nerves in animal psychology; Chapter 7 The animal's grasp of wholes.-Super-individual wholes; Chapter 8 Primary and secondary knowledge.-Instinctive and experiential activity; Chapter 9 Instinct and experience in human beings.-Behaviour indicating insight in man and animals; Chapter 10 Animal sociology.-Superindividual wholes: marriage, family, society, in man and animals; Chapter 11 Spontaneity and attention.-Understanding and communication.-Emotion and emotional transference.-Personal familiarity.-The will to superiority; Chapter 12 The human being as investigating subject, and object of investigation;