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Edited by Sigmund Koch. Price, $13.50. Pp 967. McGraw-Hill Book Co., Inc., 330 W 42nd St, New York 36, 1963.

Arthur C. Carr, PhD, Reviewer

Arch Neurol. 1963;9(2):204-205.

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The present volume constitutes the fifth of a seven-volume work sponsored by the American Psychological Association and subsidized by it and the National Science Foundation. In an effort to examine the progress made in the establishment of a science of behavior, 86 authorities are represented in the series. Volume 5 includes the contributions of 15 psychologists, as well as an illuminating introduction by the series' editor, Sigmund Koch.

The contents of this volume are primarily within an area referred to as "psychological psychology," centering particularly around the fields of learning, motivation, personality, clinical psychology, and human engineering. Selective sampling of the contents appears to confirm the editor's suggestion that "... perception is by way of becoming the 'basic' field of psychological interest and the foundation field of its conceptualizations—indeed, that it has by now almost certainly supplanted learning in these respects." In attempting to evaluate this volume in terms . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

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