Psychology and its bearing on education / / C.W. Valentine

• Autore: Valentine C. W (Charles Wilfred), <1879-1964., >
• Pubblicazione: London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 2015
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (672 p.)
• Disciplina: 370.15
• Soggetto topico: Educational psychology
• Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
• Note generali: First published in 1950.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
• Nota di contenuto: ""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 Disgust""; ""Passive 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""
• Titolo autorizzato: Psychology and its bearing on education
• ISBN: 1-315-70768-3; 1-317-48058-9
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910460293103321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Collected Works of C.W. Valentine