The Science of Human Nature: A Psychology for Beginners

by William Henry Pyle

• Gang instinct, [60]
• Genetic view of childhood, [24]
• Genius, [31]

• Habit, [87] ff.;
  • and nerve path, [91];
  • how formed, [98] ff.;
  • importance in life, [107];
  • intellectual, [89];
  • moral, [90];
  • of thought, [169];
  • results of, [94];
  • specific, [116]
• Hearing, [41];
  • defects of, [45]
• Heredity, [24] ff.
• Heredity vs. Environment, [31]
• Heritage, social, [23]
• High school and fourth grade abilities compared, [203]
• High school, function of, [217]
• Home and moral training, [118]

• Idea, [52]
• Ideas, [124]
• Imitation, [64] ff.
• Imitation in ideals, [67]
• Incidental drill, [111]
• Individual development, [24] ff.
• Individual differences, [176] ff.
• Individualistic instincts, [56]
• Industry, [216]
• Influencing men, [215]
• Inheritance, [22]
• Inherited tendencies, [50] ff.
• Initiative, [113]
• Instincts, [52] ff.;
  • classification of, [55];
  • significance of, [55]
• Interest, [84]
• Intervals between practice, [102]

• Jealousy, [58]
• Joints, sense organs in, [42]
• Jost’s law, [142]

• Language and thinking, [170] ff.
• Language study, [144]
• Latin, [116]
• Law, service of psychology to, [212]
• Learning and remembering, [138]
• Learning by wholes, [141]
• Life occupations, [205]
• Logical memory, [184] ff.

• Meaning, [163] ff.
• Medicine, [211]
• Memories, kinds of, [132]
• Memory, [124] ff.;
  • and age and sex, [127];
  • and habit, [146];
  • and school standing, [135];
  • and thinking, [134];
  • factors of, [128] ff.;
  • good, dangers resulting from, [137];
  • kinds of, [132]
• Mendelian principle, [26]
• Mental development, [19]
• Mental differences, [178];
  • detection of, [180];
  • importance of, [201] ff.
• Mental functions developed, [182]
• Mental set, [157]
• Mental tests, [183] ff.
• Mind and body, [34] ff.
• Mood, [78]
• Moral training, [117] ff.
• Motive, [77]
• Muscular speed, [14]
• Museum, school, [62] ff.
• Musical ability, [179]

• Nearsightedness, [44]
• Needs of child, [77]
• Nerve tendency, [92]
• Norms in mental tests, [184] ff.

• Occupations, [205]
• Opposites test, [195] ff.
• Organization of experience, [163] ff.

• Pain sense, [42]
• Parents, and habit-formation of children, [104] ff., [119]
• Perception, [124]
• Physiological basis of memory, [126]
• Piano playing, [51], [97]
• Pitch, [41]
• Plasticity, [93]
• Play, [68]
• Pleasure and habit, [101]
• Pleasure, higher forms of, [80]
• Practice, [99], [113]
• Primary experience, [154]
• Psychology and culture, [218]
• Psychology defined, [5];
  • method of, [13];
  • problems of, [8]
    

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  Race, development of, [18] ff.;
  • improvement of, [30]
• Ranking students, [15]
• Reasoning, [159]; training in, [168]
• Recalling forgotten names, [146]
• Recency of experience, [155]
• Regeneration, [23]
• Repetition, [99]
• Respect for authority, [77]
• Resemblance, [25]
• Retina, the, [37] f.
• Revived experience, [125]
• Rigidity, [108]
• Rote memory, [189]
• Rules for habit-formation, [113]