On the whole, the psychological work of the last quarter of the nineteenth century emphasized the study of consciousness to the neglect of the total life of intellect and character.
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The un-conscious distortion of the facts is almost harmless compared to the unconscious neglect of an animal's mental life until it verges on the unusual and marvelous.Edward Thorndike
The restriction of studies of human intellect and character to studies of conscious states was not without influence on a scientific studies of animal psychology.
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For origin and development of human faculty we must look to these processes of association in lower animals.
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Psychology helps to measure the probability that an aim is attainable.
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Nowhere more truly than in his mental capacities is man a part of nature.
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So the animal finally performs in that situation only the fitting act.
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