Psychology, the Study of Behavior

PREFACE

WHAT is psychology? With what is it concerned?
What are the questions it seeks to
answer ? How is it setting about its task? What
are its methods ? What progress has it made ?
Is it a science in an advanced stage of development?
Or is it one merely beginning to find its
feet, to take definite shape, and to map out clearly
its program of work ? Above all, what may
we hope from it in the way of addition to our
power of understanding human nature and of
contributing to the welfare of mankind?

These are the questions which I shall attempt
to answer in this book as simply as the difficulties
of the subject will permit ; hoping that some at
least of my readers will be led to feel the
fascination of the study and stimulated to pursue it
further in one or more of its several branches.