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• Cover
• Half Title
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Original Copyright Page
• PREFACE TO THE TWENTIETH EDITION
• Table of Contents
• I. THE AIM AND METHOD OF PSYCHOLOGY
• Scientific method in psychology
• II. INDIVIDUAL DIFFERENCES IN ABILITY
• Measuring ability
• Intelligence
• Mental age and intelligence quotient
• The distribution of intelligence in the population
• III. THE CORRELATION OF ABILITIES
• The method of correlation
• General ability or special abilities?
• Prediction of vocational success
• IV. PERSONALITY
• Describing personality
• Judging personality
• Personality tests and measurements
• Self-consistency and trait generality
• Personality integration
• V. PHYSIOLOGICAL AND SOCIAL FACTORS IN PERSONALITY
• Physiological influences
• The endocrine glands
• Social factors
• Improving personality
• Interplay of internal and external factors in the personality
• VI. HEREDITY AND ENVIRONMENT AS CAUSES OF INDIVIDUAL DIFFERENCES
• Interaction of heredity and environment
• The action of the environment
• Heredity
• Differences in intelligence and personality
• Group differences
• VII. INTERACTION WITH THE ENVIRONMENT
• The fundamental questions of general psychology
• Dealing with the environment
• Stimulus and response, the ‘how’ of interaction
• Principles of efficient dealing with the environment
• Everyday examples of these principles
• VIII. THE NERVOUS SYSTEM
• How the nerves operate
• The stimulus-response mechanism
• The brain
• Motor and sensory areas of the cortex
• The combining or organizing areas
• General functions of the whole cortex
• IX. HOW THE INDIVIDUAL DEVELOPS
• Development by maturation
• Development by exercise and by learning
• Behavioural development
• X. MOTIVES
• Origin and development of motives
• Classification of motives
• Strength of motives
• Motivation of work
• XI. FEELING AND EMOTION
• Feeling
• Emotion
• Emotional expression
• Organic states in emotion
• Theory of the emotions
• XII. CHOICE, CONFLICT, FRUSTRATION
• The will
• Conflicting motives
• Frustration
• Adjustment and maladjustment
• XIII. OBSERVING
• Attention
• Perception
• Figural factors in perception
• Accuracy and inaccuracy of observation
• Improvement of observation
• XIV. THE SENSE OF SIGHT
• Sensation and perception distinguished
• Mechanism of the eye
• Visual sensation
• Visual perception
• XV. THE OTHER SENSES
• The sense organs in general
• The skin senses
• The muscle sense
• Organic sensation
• The sense of taste
• The sense of smell
• The sense of hearing
• The sense of head position and movement
• XVI. LEARNING
• Definition and programme
• Place learning
• Thing learning, tool learning
• Conditioning or the learning of sequences
• Important factors in learning
• XVII. MEMORY
• Memorizing
• Economy in memorizing
• Retention
• Recall
• Recognition
• Memory training
• XVIII. THINKING
• Ideation
• Tools of thought
• Problem solving
• Logical and illogical thinking
• QUESTIONS AND EXERCISES
• REFERENCES
• INDEX