Sometimes psychology students are disappointed that scientific psychology doesn’t focus exclusively on the bizarre things that people are apt to do .Although psychology has something to say about the bizarre (remember Runyan’s essay on Vincent Van Gogh),its strategy is to say it in terms of theories about the whole of human behavior. Without getting too philosophical about it all,may I suggest that the real miracles of human behavior are not the activities chronicled on the pages of the National Enquirer. Rather, they are topics that most of us take for granted. How do we combine our sensations into coherent perception (chapter4)?How do we learn language (chapter9)? Why are some people happier than other (chapter12)? Is prejudice inevitable(chapter9)?
有时心理学生对科学心理学并不专心于人们所喜欢的奇怪的事情感到失望,尽管心理学对于这种奇异的事物(记得Runyan的文梵高文章)有所说明,但它的策略就是说 关于整个人类行为的理论条款。 没有太多的哲学思想,我可以建议人类行为的真正奇迹不是国家查询者页面上记录的活动。 相反,它们是我们大多数人认为理所当然的话题。 我们如何将我们的感觉与连贯的感觉相结合(第4章)?我们如何学习语言(第9章)? 为什么有些人比别人更快乐(第12章)? 偏见是不可避免的(第九章)吗?