The psychology of normal people / Joseph Tiffin, F. B. Knight, Eston Jackson Asher.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Tiffin, Joseph, author.

Knight, F. B., author.

Jackson Asher, Eston, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Psychology.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xvi, 58 pages)

Edition:

Revised edition.

Other Title:

psychology of normal people

Place of Publication:

Boston : D.C. Heath and Company, 1946.

Summary:

"The second edition of The psychology of normal people differs from the first edition in several respects. A considerable amount of new material including important research published during the past five years has been incorporated in the text. This new material is primarily concerned with the fields of aptitude and ability measurement, personality measurement, and evaluation, emotion, thinking, and intelligence. The experience of several years in using the book as a text has shown the desirability of certain changes in order of presentation to make the instruction more effective with beginning students. To accomplish this purpose, the two chapters on personality have been placed together following the chapter on individual differences. At the suggestion of many users of the text, the illustrations have been distributed so that each one appears near its place of reference. A continuation of the work of the authors with business and industrial men as well as with educators has amply justified and even reemphasized the soundness of the purpose of the text as stated in the preface to the first edition--to give students the insight into human nature which will prepare them for acceptable service in business, industry, and the professions"--Preface. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved).

Contents:

What is psychology

Differences between people: how they affect our behavior

Differences in environment: how they affect our behavior

Personality and adjustment

Personality: how we judge and measure it

Intelligence: how we adjust ourselves to new situations

Abilities, aptitudes, and interests: how we measure them

Our feelings and emotions

Attention: how we direct our energies

Learning: how we change our behavior

Memory: how we retain the past and are influenced by it

Perception: how we know the world about us

Imagination: when and why we make up things in our imagination and dreams

Reasoning: how we make, or should make, our decisions

Speaking, reading and writing: how we express ourselves.

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