Education Psychology: BRIEFER COURSEThis is Volume VIII of thirty-two in a series on Developmental Psychology. Originally published in 1923, the author wites that our knowledge of human instincts and capacities, of the processes of learning and remembering, of mental work and fatigue, and of individual differences and their causes has been much increased in the past score of years. This Briefer Course represents a simpler treatment of the more fundamental subject matter of these volumes, organized as a text-book in Educational Psychology for students in colleges and schools. |
Contents
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MANS EQUIPMENT OF INSTINCTS AND CAPA | 27 |
ORIGINAL SATISFIERS AND ANNOYERS | 50 |
CHAPTER PAGE | 53 |
TENDENCIES TO MINOR BODILY MOVEMENTS | 59 |
THE CAPACITY TO LEARN | 69 |
THE ANATOMY AND PHYSIOLOGY OF ORIGINAL | 84 |
THE AMount Rate and LIMIT OF IMPROVEMENT | 186 |
THE FACTORS AND CONDITIONS OF IMPROVEMENT | 202 |
CHANGES IN RATE OF IMPROVEMENT | 225 |
THE PERMANENCE OF IMPROVEMENT | 243 |
THE INFLUENCE OF IMPROVEMENT IN ONE MEN | 259 |
MENTAL FATIGUE | 283 |
MENTAL FATIGUE continued | 305 |
CHAPTER PAGE | 331 |
ORDER AND DATES OF APPEARANCE AND DISAP | 100 |
CHAPTER PAGE | 111 |
PART II | 125 |
ASSOCIATIVE LEARNING IN MAN | 138 |
LEARNING BY ANALYSIS AND SELECTION | 153 |
MENTAL FUNCTIONS | 173 |
THE INFLUENCE OF IMMEDIATE ANCESTRY | 354 |
THE INFLUENCE OF MATURITY | 369 |
THE INFLUENCE OF THE ENVIRONMENT | 376 |
THE NATURE AND AMOUNT OF INDIVIDUAL DIF | 402 |
BIBLIOGRAPHY OF References Made in the Text | 423 |
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