INDEX

A B C D E F G H I J K L M

N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z

Abilities, specialized, 179

Ability, unusual, 206

Adaptation of vision, 41

After-images, visual, 40

Ancestors, 22 f.

Anger, 58

Appearance of instincts, 54

Applied psychology, 8–9, 210 ff.

Association of ideas, 152

Astigmatism, 44

Attention, 80 ff.; and will, 82.

Attitude, 157

Behavior, 7

Bodily conditions, 76

Brain, 7

Brightness, sensation of, 38

Business, 215

Causality, 18, 21

Centrally initiated action, 51

Child, nature of, 11

Cold, sense of, 42

Collecting instinct, 62

College, function of, 217

Color blindness, 45

Color mixture, 39

Color, sensation of, 38

Completion test, 198

Concentrated practice, 102

Consciousness, 7

Conservatism, 109

Costly Temper test, 186

Cramming, 141

Criminal, the, 213 f.

Curriculum, 145

Darwin, 89

Defects of sense organs, 43

Development, individual, 24 ff.; racial, 18–21; significance of and causality, 21–24

Direct method, 112

Dizziness, organs that give us sense of, 42

Dramatization, 67

Drill in school subjects, 110–112

Dynamic, world as, 20

Economical practice, 101 ff.

Education, 210; aim of, 10; preparatory, 167; science of, 9 ff.

Educational inferences, 143

Educational psychology, 9 ff.

Efficiency, 98, 108

Emotions, 74 ff.

Environment, 31

Environmental instincts, 61

Envy, 58

Evolution, 19 ff.

Exceptions, 101, 114

Excursions, 61

Experience, 8; organization of, 169

Experiment, 13 ff.

Eye, the, 37

Eye defects, 43 ff.

Eyestrain, 20

Farsightedness, 44

Fatigue, 101

Fear, 56

Feeble-mindedness, 29

Feeling, 73 ff.

Fighting instincts, 58

Formal drill, III, 112

Free association frequency surface, 178

Free association test, 193

Frequency of experience, 156

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

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

Salesmanship, 215

School, and habit, 108; and moral training, 119 f.

Schoolhouse, community center, 60 f.

Science, 1

Scientific law, 3

Scientist, 1 ff.

Securing efficiency, 218

Selecting habits, 109

Sense organs, affects of stimulating, 6, 7; knowledge through, 35

Sleight’s experiment, 140

Smell, 42

Social life of children, 60

Social tendencies, 59

Stimulation, 6

Stimulus and response, 50

Study, learning how to, 132

Subnormal children, 206

Substitution test, 192

Taste, 42

Teacher, function of in memory work, 142; function of in habit-formation, 103

Teaching too abstract, 129

Temperament, 78

Tendons, sense organs in, 42

Thinking, 152 ff., 159

Touch, 42

Transfer of training, 114 ff., 140

Truancies, 61

Typewriting, 51, 94 ff.

Vision, 37; importance of, 45

Visual contrast, 39

Vividness and intensity of experience, 156

Wandering, 61

Warmth, sense of, 42

Weight, diagram showing frequency surface of, 177

Word-building test, 197

Work and psychology, 218