Psychology today : lectures and study manual /
"Psychology today differs from the psychology of yesterday. Not that human nature has changed; but we know more about it, thanks to scientific method. The thirty lectures in the first half of this volume are filled with recent findings of psychological research, exemplifying the insight which s...
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| Language: | English |
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Chicago, Ill. :
The University of Chicago Press,
[1932]
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| Series: | PsycBOOKS.
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| Online Access: | Connect to the full text of this electronic book |
Table of Contents:
- Psychology today
- Psychology: A modern science of human management
- Learning and forgetting
- Can memory be improved?
- Our social attitudes
- Old prejudices and new schools in psychology
- The growth of the infant mind
- Children's fears
- Anger: Its causes and control
- Social behavior in infancy and childhood
- Adolescence: The difficult age
- Transient changes in personality
- How to grow a personality
- Growing older
- Personality in our changing society
- Mending broken personalities
- The great apes
- Effects of strong emotions
- Animal drives
- How animals learn
- Intelligence of animals and men
- Psychology of reading
- Difficulties in learning
- The bases of learning
- The psychology of musical skills
- Individual differences: Their measurement and significance
- Effects of punishment and of reward
- The problem of working together
- Machines and monotony
- Matching men and occupations
- Making work worth while.