The Science of Human Nature: A Psychology for BeginnersPyle, William Henry
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The Science of Human Nature: A Psychology for Beginners
Pyle, William Henry
Educational psychology; Psychology
10. Visit factories where men do skillful work and try to learn by
observation what types of mind and body are required by the different
kinds of work.
11. Does the occupation which you have chosen for life demand any
specific abilities? If so, do you possess them in a high degree?
12. Could parents better train their children if they made use of
psychological principles?
13. In how many ways will the facts learned in this course be of
economic use to you in your life? In what ways will they make life more
pleasurable?
14. Make a complete outline of this chapter.
REFERENCES FOR CLASS READING
MÜNSTERBERG: _Psychology, General and Applied_, Chapter XXVII-XXXIII.
MÜNSTERBERG: _The Psychology of Industrial Efficiency_.
ALPHABETICAL LIST OF REFERENCES FOR CLASS READING
COLVIN, S. S., and BAGLEY, W. C.: _Human Behavior_. The Macmillan
Company, 1913.
DAVENPORT, C. B.: _Heredity in Relation to Eugenics_. Henry Holt &
Company, 1911.
DEWEY, J.: _How We Think_. D. C. Heath & Company, 1910.
KELLICOTT, W. E.: _The Social Direction of Human Evolution_. D. Appleton
& Company, 1911.
KIRKPATRICK, E. A.: _The Fundamentals of Child Study_. The Macmillan
Company, 1912.
MÜNSTERBERG, H.: _Psychology, General and Applied_. D. Appleton &
Company, 1914.
MÜNSTERBERG, H.: _The Psychology of Industrial Efficiency_. Houghton
Mifflin Company, 1913.
PILLSBURY, W. B.: _Essentials of Psychology_. The Macmillan Company,
1916.
PYLE, W. H.: _Outlines of Educational Psychology_. Warwick and York,
1912.
PYLE, W. H.: _The Examination of School Children_. The Macmillan
Company, 1913.
ROWE, S. H.: _Habit-Formation and the Science of Teaching_. Longmans,
Green, & Company, 1911.
TITCHENER, E. B.: _A Beginner's Psychology_. The Macmillan Company,
1916.
GLOSSARY
Most of the terms given below are explained in the text, but it is hoped
that this alphabetical list with brief definitions will prove helpful.
It is a difficult task to make the definitions scientific and at the
same time brief, simple, and clear.
_Abnormal._ Having mental or physical characteristics widely different
from those commonly found in ordinary people.
_Acquired nature._ Those aspects of habit, skill, knowledge, ideas, and
ideals that come from experience and are due to experience.
_Action._ Muscular contractions usually producing motion of the body or
of some part of the body.
_Adaptation._ Adjustment to one's surroundings.
_Adaptive._ Readily changing one's responses and acquiring such new
responses as enable one to meet successfully new situations; also having
tendencies or characteristics which enable one to be readily adjustable.
_After-images._ Images that follow immediately after stimulation of a
sense organ, and resulting from this stimulation.
_Association._ Binding together ideas through experiencing them
together.
_Attention._ Relative clearness of perceptions and ideas.
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