Psychology applied to education : a series of lectures on the theory & practice of education / by James Ward ; edited by G. Dawes Hicks.

  • Ward, James, 1843-1925.
Date:
1926
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Credit: Psychology applied to education : a series of lectures on the theory & practice of education / by James Ward ; edited by G. Dawes Hicks. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Time necessary for the Appropriation of new Knowledge . page 54 Language must wait on Knowledge of Fact . . . . 55 The so-called Object-Lesson . . . . . . . 56 [Note on the Nature of Perception. Ed.] . . . . . 56 Lecture V RETENTIVENESS, REPRODUCTION AND IMAGINATION How the Mechanism of Ideation works ..... 60 Conditions of Retention . . . . . . . . 61 Influence of Moods and Emotions ...... 63 Dependence of Reproduction upon Association of Ideas . . 64 Advantages of Obliviscence ....... 65 Learning by heart ......... 67 Popular Fallacy of a general Faculty of Memory .... 68 Facts of Association: Law of Contiguity ..... 69 Learning by Understanding: Law of Similarity .... 70 Separation of Memory and Understanding, an Abstraction . . 72 Imagination .......... 72 Lecture VI THINKING, ABSTRACTION AND GENERALIZATION Psychological and Logical Treatment of Thought ... 74 Pure Thought, an Abstraction ....... 76 Language and its use in Thinking ...... 77 Names, as attributes of Things or Facts ..... 78 Thought and Imagination: Generic Images .... 78 Words, though indispensable Aids to Thought, may prove impediments ......... 79 How words enable the saving of time in dealing with imagination 80 Symbolic and Logical Thinking . . . . . . . 81 Bearing of the logical scheme upon actual thinking ... 82 Importance of knowing the Connotation of Words . . . 83 The exacter logical training ....... 84 Lecture VII INTELLECTUAL AND LOGICAL TRAINING Recapitulation of chief points ....... 85 Dangers of Symbolic Thinking ....... 85 Descartes’ Rules for the Guidance of Thought .... 86 Training of the Mind in thinking ...... 87 Thought in progress ......... 88 The Method of Discovery and the Method of Instruction . . 89 Importance of the History of a Science from educational standpoint 90 Combination of the Analytic and Synthetic Methods . . . 91 Difference between Certainty and Probability .... 92 Descartes’ Account of Error ....... 93 Sources of Error ......... 95 Means of fostering love of Truth . . . . . . 95