Abstract: The purpose of this paper is twofold: first, to enumerate some principles guiding the work of eompiling a text of psychology, a required course fornon-education department students of the teachers college, and second,emphatically to clarify the views on some of the confronted theoreticalproblems as follows: (1) the classification of mental activities, (2) the nature of such a course or psychology, (3) the evaluation of Pavlov's theory of higher nervous activity, (4) the integration or basic psychological theories and educationalpractices, (5) the class character of mental phenomena.

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