Produced by Bryan Ness, C. St. Charleskindt, and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This book was produced from scanned images of public domain material from the Google Print project.) Applied Psychology MAKING YOUR OWN WORLD _Being the Second of a Series of Twelve Volumes on the Applications of Psychology to the Problems of Personal and Business Efficiency_ BY WARREN HILTON, A.B., L.L.B. FOUNDER OF THE SOCIETY OF APPLIED PSYCHOLOGY ISSUED UNDER THE AUSPICES OF THE LITERARY DIGEST FOR The Society of Applied Psychology NEW YORK AND LONDON 1920 COPYRIGHT 1914 BY THE APPLIED PSYCHOLOGY PRESS SAN FRANCISCO CONTENTS Chapter Page I. THE TWO FUNDAMENTAL PROCESSES OF MIND MIND AS A MEANS TO ATTAINMENT 3 THREE POSTULATES FOR THIS COURSE 4 EXPERIENCE AND ABSTRACTIONS 5 PRIMARY MENTAL OPERATIONS 6 II. SENSATIONS AND OUR PERCEPTION OF THEM MIND'S SOURCE OF SUPPLIES 9 DOES MATTER EXIST? 10 FIRST-HAND KNOWLEDGE 11 SECOND-HAND KNOWLEDGE 12 ETHERIC VIBRATIONS AS CAUSING SENSATIONS 13 THE ROAD TO PERCEPTION 14 THE PLACE WHERE SENSATION OCCURS 15 LABORATORY PROOF OF SENSE-PERCEPTIVE PROCESS 16 REACTION-TIME 17 THE HUMAN TELEPHONE 18 THE LIVING TELEGRAPH 19 THE SIX STEPS TO REACTION 20 UNOPENED MENTAL MAIL 21 SELECTIVE PROCESS THAT DETERMINES CONDUCT 22 IN TUNE WITH LIFE-INTEREST 23 PRACTICAL ASPECTS OF PERCEPTION PROCESS 24 III. SENSORY ILLUSIONS AND SUGGESTIONS FOR THEIR USE