The Animal Mind: A Textbook of Comparative Psychology

In this volume are brought together the principal experimental studies of animal intelligence made by Professor Thorndike, and a discussion of the general laws of animal intellect and behavior, which have been demonstrated by recent work in animal psychology. These studies have a twofold interest. In the first place since they represent the first deliberate and extended application of the experimental method in animal psychology, they are a most useful introduction to the later literature of that subject. They mark the change from books of general argumentation on the basis of common experience interpreted in terms of the faculty psychology, to monographs reporting detailed and often highly technical experiments interpreted in terms of original and acquired connections between situation and response.

In the second place, since they represent the point of view and the method of present animal psychology, but in the case of very general and simple problems, they are useful also as readings for students who need a general acquaintance with some samples of experimental work in this field. The work includes chapters on The Study of Consciousness and The Study of Behavior; Animal Intelligence ; The Instinctive Reactions of Young Chicks; The Psychology of Fishes; The Mental Life of the Monkeys ; Laws and Hypotheses of Behavior, and the Evolution of the Human Intellect.

By EDWIN A. KIRKPATRICK, B.S., M.Ph. Director of Child Study Department, Fitchburg (Mass.) State Normal School A study of psychology as modified by the theory of evolution. It deals with the beginnings and growth of mind as shown in adults and in children, and with the various grades of animal intelligence from the lowest species of animals to the highest races of men. A strong pedagogical interest pervades the work, and the matter is so formulated as to be of special interest and significance to educators. For courses in genetic psychology this

By W. B. PILLSBURY Professor of Psychology, University of Michigan “The present work is a simple, straightforward presentation of the accepted data of psychology, intended for introductory college classes. Approximately 100 pages are devoted to the physical aspects of mental life, as the nervous system, behavior and sensation. There are concluding chapters on work, fatigue, sleep, and disturbances of the self.”—/ournal of Educational Psychology. “In Professor Pillsbury’s ‘ Essentials of Psychology’ we have an admirable psychological text-book, which combines readableness and clearness of presentation with a general arrangement that is novel . . . a text-book that will confirm Professor Pills. bury’s high position as an exponent of up-to-date psychology.” — The Westminster Review.

“ The essential results of psychological investigation are here presented in a simple and very usable form. ... This book will undoubtedly be very useful as an introductory text. Teachers will find a very satisfactory.statement of the most recent results on which to base educational applications.” — University of Chicago Press. “Professor Pillsbury has written an exceptionally useful and effective book for which one can safely predict a high degree of popularity among students.” — azure.