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Readings in general psychology.

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Dennis, Wayne, 1905-1976 (Editor)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Prentice-Hall, 1949.
Subjects:
Psychology.
Table of Contents:
  • The sense of sight: Notes concerning vision / Leonardo Da Vinci
  • Newton's discoveries concerning color / Joseph Priestley
  • Binocular depth perception / Charles Wheatstone
  • The blind spot / Hermann von Helmholtz
  • Vision without inversion of the retinal image / George M. Stratton
  • Hearing and other senses: Pitch, intensity, and timbre / Hermann von Helmholtz
  • Sensitivity to high tones / Francis Galton
  • Auditory localization with acoustical transposition of the ears / Paul Thomas Young
  • The action currents of the auditory nerve / Ernest Glen Wever and Charles W. Bray
  • The absence of certain sensory experiences in the deaf / William James
  • Sensations from the skin, muscles, tendons, and joints / Edward B. Titchener
  • The adaptation of cutaneous pain / Karl M. Dallenbach and Maryland Burns
  • Perception: Illusions / Aristotle
  • Memory and perception / Hermann von Helmholtz
  • The apparent size and distance of the moon / Hermann von Helmholtz
  • The span of visual perception / Wilhelm Wundt
  • Perception by suggestion / E.E. Slosson
  • The perception of shape / Wolfgang Köhler
  • The perception of visual movement / Hugo Münsterburg
  • Emotion: Conditioned emotional reactions / John B. Watson and Rosalie Rayner Watson
  • The elimination of children's fears / Mary Cover Jones
  • Maturation and emotion: fear of snakes / Harold E. Jones and Mary Cover Jones
  • Anger in college women / Georgia Stickland Gates
  • What strong emotions do to us / Walter B. Cannon
  • Emotional effects produced by injection of adrenalin / Hadley Cantril and William A. Hunt
  • Culture and emotional expression / Otto Klineberg
  • Motivation: The physiological basis of thirst / Walter B. Cannon
  • Activities may have intrinsic drives / Robert S. Woodworth
  • Motivation in dreaming / Sigmund Freud
  • Motivated forgetting / Sigmund Freud
  • Culture and motivation / Ruth Benedict
  • Fear as an acquirable drive / Neal E. Miller
  • Learning and retention: Experiments in memory / Hermann Ebbinghaus
  • Learning a hierarchy of habits / William L. Bryan and Noble Harter
  • Errors of memory / Hugo Münsterberg
  • Conditioned responses / Ivan P. Pavlov
  • Observational set in learning / Robert S. Woodworth
  • Forgetting during sleep and waking / John G. Jenkins and Karl M. Dallenbach
  • Social influences upon memory / F.C. Bartlett
  • Reasoning and thinking: The time it takes to think / James McKeen Cattell
  • Arithmetic by smell / Francis Galton
  • Do animals reason? / Edward L. Thorndike
  • Human solutions of puzzles / Henry A. Ruger
  • Problem solving by chimpanzees / Wolfgang Köhler
  • Problem solving by children / Augusta Alpert
  • Experiments in productive thinking / Max Wertheimer
  • Intelligence: The Binet-Simon intelligence scale / Lewis M. Terman
  • The intelligence quotient / William Stern
  • An analysis of 1,000 intelligence quotients / Lewis M. Terman
  • Physical condition and intelligence / Donald G. Paterson
  • Heredity and environment in relation to intelligence / Barbara S. Burks
  • The study of genius / Lewis M. Terman
  • Social behavior: Early social behavior of children / Charlotte Bühler
  • Dominance in monkeys / A.H. Maslow and Sydney Flanzbaum
  • The measurement of attitudes / L.L. Thurstone
  • Stereotypes / Daniel Katz and Kenneth Braly
  • The sample interview survey / Rensis Likert
  • Personality: The measurement of character / Francis Galton
  • Accuracy of self-estimates of personality / H.L. Hollingworth
  • The first adjustment inventory / Robert S. Woodworth
  • The normal inferiority complex / Edna F. Heidbreder
  • A vocational interest test / E.K. Strong
  • Objective tests of character / Hugh Hartshorne and Mark A. May
  • Projective methods for the study of personality / Lawrence K. Frank
  • Psychological development: The birth equipment of the human being / John B. Watson
  • A method for studying child development / Arnold Gesell
  • Development in identical twins / Arnold Gesell and Helen Thompson
  • Change of interests with age / E.K. Strong
  • Intelligence changes during the life span / Walter R. Miles and Catherine C. Miles
  • Is the differential decline of abilities related to conservatism? / Floyd L. Ruch.