There are at least two possible approaches to the study of psychology by teacher-training students in high schools and by beginning students in normal schools.
One of these is through methods of teaching and subject matter. The other aims to give the simple, concrete facts of psychology as the science of the mind. The former presupposes a close relationship between psychology and methods of teaching and assumes that psychology is studied chiefly as an aid to teaching. The latter is less complicated. The plan contemplates the teaching of the simple fundamentals at first and applying them incidentally as the occasion demands. This latter point of view is in the main the point of view taken in the text.
The author has taught the material of the text to high school students to the end that he might present the fundamental facts of psychology in simple form.
W. W. C.
CONTENTS
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| Chapter | [I.] | Introduction | [1] |
| Chapter | [II.] | Development of the Race and of the Individual | [18] |
| Chapter | [III.] | Mind and Body | [34] |
| Chapter | [IV.] | Inherited Tendencies | [50] |
| Chapter | [V.] | Feeling and Attention | [73] |
| Chapter | [VI.] | Habit | [87] |
| Chapter | [VII.] | Memory | [124] |
| Chapter | [VIII.] | Thinking | [152] |
| Chapter | [IX.] | Individual Differences | [176] |
| Chapter | [X.] | Applied Psychology | [210] |
| [Glossary] | [223] | ||
| [Index] | [227] |