An introduction to experimental psychology in relation to education / by C.W. Valentine.

  • Charles Wilfred Valentine
Date:
[1913?]
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Credit: An introduction to experimental psychology in relation to education / by C.W. Valentine. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Description, erudite, 123 , imaginative, 122 Descriptive types, 123 Dictation: as a fatigue test, 162 , as a mental test, 183 Dravv'ing, as a mental test, 177, 182 I^DUCATIONAL psychology, 'J relation of, to general psy- chology, 1 Errors : due to fatigue, 151 IT. • , motor, in cancellation of letters, 153 , typical, in memory experi- ments, 127 , variations in number of, in mirror-drawing experiment, 149 Essays, comparison of, with ex- perimental results, 124 Examinations: compared with mental tests, 166 tf. , correlation between results of, 137 , difficulty of standardising, 167 Examining, personal factor in, 139 Exj)erimental psychology, value of, 1 ff. ATIGUE : experiment on, 61 , distingiiished from bore- dom, 155 , distinguished from feeling of tiredness, 155 , results of, 151 , transfer of, 158 First impressions, importance of, 91 Frequency of association, effect of, 87, 92 GENUS-SPECIES test, 93 Geometrical figures, ex- periment with, 34 German vocabularies, 22, 23 Giay’s Elegy, selection from, 11 Green, J. A. (and Loveday, T.) quoted, 96 Groups equal, method of, 160 Guessing, danger of, 91 Heredity and intelligence, 169 MAGERY : cultivation of, 97 , experiment on types of, 8 ff. —, and the appreciation of poetry, 95 —, use of, 96 Imagination, 119 “ Incitement,” 151 Intelligence, general, 80 , tests of, 80, 94, 164 , Binet tests of, 172 Interest: dominant, 89 and intelligence tests, 171 , intensity of, 88, 91 “ Interpolation ” tests, 158 Introspection, improvement of, 3 AMES, W., quoted, 171 , referred to, lUl, 102, 146 Learning, economical methods of, 109 , experiment on, 17 , improvement in, 147 , method of trial and error in, 147 poetry, experiment on, 17 prose passages, experiment on, 42 by sectional method : dis- advantages of, 110
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