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Psychology today : lectures and study manual / edited by Walter Van Dyke Bingham.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Child development.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (492 pages) : illustrations
- Other Title:
- Psychology today
- Place of Publication:
- Chicago, Illinois : The University of Chicago Press, 1932.
- Summary:
- 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 science makes possible. Written for the radio audience, these chapters are at once vivid and compact. Read in sequence, they give as in a panorama a glimpse across the main fields tilled by contemporary psychology. These include the normal processes of mind; child development; our changing personalities; animal behavior; the psychology of education; and industrial psychology. Students will wish to preface each group of five lectures by turning first to the appropriate manual in the second half of the volume, reading there the introductory chapter and noting the supplementary aids to study. There are also questions to provoke discussion, and annotated references to further readings illustrative of the new understanding which scientific method is bringing to man's knowledge of himself. Here, then, is a fairly representative picture of Psychology Today.
- 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.
- Notes:
- Description based on print version record.
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