ATTENTION AND

INTEREST

A STUDY IN PSYCHOLOGY AND

EDUCATION

BY

FELIX ARNOLD, PH.D.

New York

THE MACMILLAN COMPANY

1910

All rights reserved

UNIV. OF

VINNOJETVO

Preface

The present essay on the psychology of attention and interest is an attempt to clarify and arrange the many facts that have been brought to light by numerous experiments in the psychological laboratories. I have felt myself bound, not to uphold any special theory or school, but to present the facts as they seem to be. The exposition of the subject under the categories, 'description,' 'illustration,' 'development,' 'explanation,' and 'definition," is in line with the more modern and scientific presentation as seen in books on physiology, embryology, zoölogy, medicine, etc. Some may differ with me as regards the exact demarcation of the different aspects of the subject. The facts, however, are not changed because of any scheme of presentation. My chief obligations are to J. M. Baldwin, J. McKeen Cattell, E. L. Thorndike, E. B. Tichener, F. J. E. Woodbridge, and other exponents of the scientific attitude towards facts and the presentation of facts.

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