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- catalog created "[1940]".
- catalog date "1940".
- catalog date "[1940]".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "[1940]".
- catalog description ""Suggested readings" and "More advanced readings" at end of each chapter. "References" p.[479]-496.".
- catalog description "Ch. 1. What is psychology? A comparison of naive and scientific psychology: what psychology is not -- Characteristics of psychological research -- Branches of psychology -- Schools of psychology -- Psychology and related sciences -- The value of psychology -- ch. 2. Personality and behavior -- Some characteristics of a personality -- The nervous system and behavior -- Stimuli and behavior -- The psychological whole -- Varying complexity of psychological wholes -- Behavior and adjustment -- Maladjustments -- Some futile adjustments -- Some adjustments which thwart development -- Analysis of the psychological whole -- ch. 3. Differences between people: how they affect our behavior -- The influence of age -- Physiological conditions -- Physique -- Sex -- Intelligence -- Interest and values -- Disposition -- Sentiments -- Complexes -- Degree of organization -- Temperament -- Mood -- Attitudes -- ch. 4. Differences in environment: how they affect our behavior -- ".
- catalog description "General principles of environmental influences -- Influence of the home -- The school -- Motion pictures -- The radio -- Community life -- Presence of others -- Other environmental influences -- The multiplicity of influences -- Ch. 5. Personality: how we judge and measure it -- Common-sense methods of judging personality -- Pseudo-scientific methods of judging personality -- Pitfalls in judging personality -- Scientific efforts to judge personality -- Aptitude testing -- The validity and reliability of tests -- The value of cumulative knowledge about a person -- Can we change our personality -- Vocational success and personality -- ch. 6. Our feelings and emotions -- The source of emotions -- Emotions as satisfactory adjustments -- Emotions as unsatisfactory adjustments -- Bodily expression of emotions -- Memory for emotional experiences -- Detection of emotions -- The James-Lange theory of emotions -- Emotional development -- Emotions and health -- ".
- catalog description "Successful and unsuccessful action in anger-provoking situations -- Control of the emotions -- Controlling the emotions of others -- ch. 7. Attention: how we change our behavior -- The importance of attention -- Laws of attention: external conditions -- Laws of attention: internal conditions -- Involuntary versus voluntary attention -- Control of attention -- Measurement of attention -- ch. 8. Learning: how we change our behavior -- Learning and activity -- Importance of learning in man -- Unlearned adjustments -- The changes that occur when we learn -- Habits -- Motivation and learning -- Economical learning -- Drill -- Cramming -- The transfer of training -- Learning by trail and error and by insight -- ch. 9. Memory: How we retain the past and are influence by it -- The steps involved in memory -- The forms of retention -- Do we completely forget anything -- The principle of association -- Recall -- Recognition -- Can memory be improved -- ".
- catalog description "ch. 10. Intelligence: how we adjust ourselves to new situations -- Characteristics of intelligent behavior -- The measurement of intelligence -- The reliability and validity of intelligence tests -- Amount and significance of differences in intelligence -- The determinants of intelligence -- Eugenics and euthenics -- ch. 11. Perception: -- how we know the world about us -- Individual differences in sensory equipment -- The significance of the sensory end organs -- Limitations of our senses -- After-images -- Perception an interpretation of sensory stimulation -- How perceptual processes are influence by experience -- The visual perception of distance -- Eyedness -- The perception of time -- Errors of perception -- Ways of making our perceptions more reliable -- Disorders of perception -- Influence of perceptual defects upon personality -- Extra-sensory perception -- Synaesthesia -- The reliability of testimony -- ".
- catalog description "ch. 12. Imagination: when and why we make up things in our imagination and dreams -- Imagination and perception -- Hallucinations -- Experience and imagination -- Reproductive and creative imagination -- development of imagination -- Individual difference sin imagination -- Imagination and adjustments -- Worry -- Imagination and development of personality -- Imagination as a source of enjoyment -- Play -- Daydreams -- Dreams -- Aesthetic enjoyment -- ch. 13. Reasoning: how we make, or should make, our decisions -- The nature of reasoning -- Place of reasoning in the life of man -- Steps in the acto f reasoning -- Images and concepts -- Autistic thinking -- Conditions that stimulate logical thinking -- Some personality traits that are conducive to reasoning -- Deliusions -- Disorders of various mental processes -- ch. 14. Speaking, reading and writing: How we express ourselves -- Speech -- Speech disorders -- reading -- Causes of reading disability -- Writing and spelling.".
- catalog extent "xv,512p.".
- catalog hasFormat "Psychology of normal people.".
- catalog isFormatOf "Psychology of normal people.".
- catalog issued "1940".
- catalog issued "[1940]".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Boston, D.C. Heath & Co.".
- catalog relation "Psychology of normal people.".
- catalog subject "BF131 .T47".
- catalog subject "Psychology.".
- catalog tableOfContents "Ch. 1. What is psychology? A comparison of naive and scientific psychology: what psychology is not -- Characteristics of psychological research -- Branches of psychology -- Schools of psychology -- Psychology and related sciences -- The value of psychology -- ch. 2. Personality and behavior -- Some characteristics of a personality -- The nervous system and behavior -- Stimuli and behavior -- The psychological whole -- Varying complexity of psychological wholes -- Behavior and adjustment -- Maladjustments -- Some futile adjustments -- Some adjustments which thwart development -- Analysis of the psychological whole -- ch. 3. Differences between people: how they affect our behavior -- The influence of age -- Physiological conditions -- Physique -- Sex -- Intelligence -- Interest and values -- Disposition -- Sentiments -- Complexes -- Degree of organization -- Temperament -- Mood -- Attitudes -- ch. 4. Differences in environment: how they affect our behavior -- ".
- catalog tableOfContents "General principles of environmental influences -- Influence of the home -- The school -- Motion pictures -- The radio -- Community life -- Presence of others -- Other environmental influences -- The multiplicity of influences -- Ch. 5. Personality: how we judge and measure it -- Common-sense methods of judging personality -- Pseudo-scientific methods of judging personality -- Pitfalls in judging personality -- Scientific efforts to judge personality -- Aptitude testing -- The validity and reliability of tests -- The value of cumulative knowledge about a person -- Can we change our personality -- Vocational success and personality -- ch. 6. Our feelings and emotions -- The source of emotions -- Emotions as satisfactory adjustments -- Emotions as unsatisfactory adjustments -- Bodily expression of emotions -- Memory for emotional experiences -- Detection of emotions -- The James-Lange theory of emotions -- Emotional development -- Emotions and health -- ".
- catalog tableOfContents "Successful and unsuccessful action in anger-provoking situations -- Control of the emotions -- Controlling the emotions of others -- ch. 7. Attention: how we change our behavior -- The importance of attention -- Laws of attention: external conditions -- Laws of attention: internal conditions -- Involuntary versus voluntary attention -- Control of attention -- Measurement of attention -- ch. 8. Learning: how we change our behavior -- Learning and activity -- Importance of learning in man -- Unlearned adjustments -- The changes that occur when we learn -- Habits -- Motivation and learning -- Economical learning -- Drill -- Cramming -- The transfer of training -- Learning by trail and error and by insight -- ch. 9. Memory: How we retain the past and are influence by it -- The steps involved in memory -- The forms of retention -- Do we completely forget anything -- The principle of association -- Recall -- Recognition -- Can memory be improved -- ".
- catalog tableOfContents "ch. 10. Intelligence: how we adjust ourselves to new situations -- Characteristics of intelligent behavior -- The measurement of intelligence -- The reliability and validity of intelligence tests -- Amount and significance of differences in intelligence -- The determinants of intelligence -- Eugenics and euthenics -- ch. 11. Perception: -- how we know the world about us -- Individual differences in sensory equipment -- The significance of the sensory end organs -- Limitations of our senses -- After-images -- Perception an interpretation of sensory stimulation -- How perceptual processes are influence by experience -- The visual perception of distance -- Eyedness -- The perception of time -- Errors of perception -- Ways of making our perceptions more reliable -- Disorders of perception -- Influence of perceptual defects upon personality -- Extra-sensory perception -- Synaesthesia -- The reliability of testimony -- ".
- catalog tableOfContents "ch. 12. Imagination: when and why we make up things in our imagination and dreams -- Imagination and perception -- Hallucinations -- Experience and imagination -- Reproductive and creative imagination -- development of imagination -- Individual difference sin imagination -- Imagination and adjustments -- Worry -- Imagination and development of personality -- Imagination as a source of enjoyment -- Play -- Daydreams -- Dreams -- Aesthetic enjoyment -- ch. 13. Reasoning: how we make, or should make, our decisions -- The nature of reasoning -- Place of reasoning in the life of man -- Steps in the acto f reasoning -- Images and concepts -- Autistic thinking -- Conditions that stimulate logical thinking -- Some personality traits that are conducive to reasoning -- Deliusions -- Disorders of various mental processes -- ch. 14. Speaking, reading and writing: How we express ourselves -- Speech -- Speech disorders -- reading -- Causes of reading disability -- Writing and spelling.".
- catalog title "The psychology of normal people / Joseph Tiffin and Frederic B. Knight ; Charles Conant Josey.".
- catalog type "text".