Книга: Educational Psychology: Revised and Enlarged (Classic Reprint)

THE knowledge of human nature which psychology offers to students of educational theory and practice may be roughly divided into four parts. A body of general knowledge about instincts, habits, memory, attention, interests, reasoning, etc., finds place in the ordinary text-books. Detailed descriptions of the thoughts, feelings and conduct of certain children at different ages are available in the literature of child study. Particular facts which bear upon this or that school subject or method of teaching may be gleaned from researches upon perception, association, practice, fatigue and other topics. Finally there is an even more incoherent mass of facts about the differences between one human being and another and the respective shares which sex, age, ' race' or remote ancestry, ' family' or immediate ancestry, and the circumstances of life have in the causation of these differences. It is the aim of this volume to put this last group of facts at the service of studeTable of Contents I Introduction II The Measurement of Individual Differences , III The Influence of Sex IS IV The Influence of Remote Ancestry or Race 51 V The Influence of Immediate Ancestry or Family 69 VI The Influence of Maturity 10ol- VII The Influence of the Em'ironment I q VIII The Nature and mount of Individual Differences 111 Single Traits q2 IX The Relations between the Amounts of Different Traits in the Same Indiddual I I X The Nature and Amount of Indi'idual Differences in Combinations of Traits Types of Intellect and Character 193 XI Extreme Individual Differences Exceptional Children 20 APP~NDJX I List of authors and titles referred to specifically in the text 23 I II List and descriptions of measurements referred to cursorily in the text 236 III List anu definitions of statistical terms used in the text lpAbout the Publisher Forgotten Books is a publi