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Psychology and its bearing on education /
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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London, England ; New York, New York :
Routledge,
1950.
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| Colección: | Collected Works of C.W. Valentine.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover; Half Title; Title; Copyright; Original Title; Original Copyright; PREFACE TO FIRST EDITION; PREFACE TO 1952 REPRINT; PREFACE TO SECOND EDITION, 1960; CONTENTS; TABLES; FIGURES; I. Introduction; The scope of this book; What psychology is not; Is psychology of any practical use?; (a) Psychology applied to industry; (b) The use of intelligence tests; (c) Vocational guidance tests; (d) Tests in the Army; (e) The cure of minor mental disorders; Psychology as a guide to probabilities; Plan of study for this book; II. Supposed Mental Faculties and their Training.
- The supposed 'faculty of memory'Rote memory and substance memory; Visual and auditory rote memory; Interest and learning; The supposed 'training of memory'; Some practical applications to teaching; The supposed 'faculty of observation' and its training; Observation, perception, and apperception; Imagination and its 'training'; (a) The forming of mental images; (b) Reproductive imagination; (c) Constructive imagination; Attention and the training of attention; Mental discipline and the doctrine of formal training; The need for considering the popular interpretation of psychological terms.
- The meaning of 'habit'III. The Modern Psychological View of Mental Abilities; General intelligence; Special abilities; Innate general ability; Mental age and the intelligence quotient; Distribution of intelligence; The difference between the modern psychology of mental abilities and the 'faculty psychology'; IV. Desire and Striving, Pleasure, Emotions and Sentiments; Three aspects of mental process; Conation and feeling-tone; Is conation always directed towards pleasure?; The emotions; Emotions and sentiments; The development of a sentiment.
- v. Are there Human Instincts? The Innate Bases of Conduct and 'Drives'What is an instinct?; Distinction between instincts and reflexes; Instincts and intelligence; The essential qualities of instinctive tendencies in man; 'Instincts' or 'innate tendencies' or' drives'?; Innate tendencies in man resembling instincts; The main clues to innate tendencies; The spread of innate tendencies in man; The modification of innate tendencies by experience; 'Drives' and innate tendencies; Temperament; Anthropological evidence about innate tendencies; The order of discussion of tendencies or drives.
- VI. Sympathy, the Parental Impulse, Fear, and DisgustPassive sympathy or sympathetic induction of emotions; Specific elements in passive sympathy; The sympathetic induction of emotions in moral and aesthetic education; Passive sympathy in crowds and groups; Active sympathy: the parental or protective impulse; The appeal for sympathy and help; Fear and the avoidance of danger; Disgust and repulsion; VII. Anger, Pugnacity, and Aggressiveness; Self-assertion and Self-submission; Pugnacity and war; Assertiveness and self-assertion; Self-display; Individual differences in self-assertion.