Lectures on Psychology

File consists of 39 mini-folders or booklets of Spearman's lecture notes (manuscript and typescript) entitled "Lectures on Psychology". Vol 1-22 are manuscript, Vol.23-39 are typescript.

Each numbered lecture note is entitled as follows:

1. Introductory
2. Sensory quality & intensity
3. Sensory space time & clearness
4. Specific nervous energy
5. Memory
6. Fatigue
7. Confluence & Contrast
8. Common fund of energy
9. Images, their nature
10. Images, their function
11. Notional Ideation
12. Notional Ideation (Contd.)
13. Sensory perception
14. Association
15. Persevation
16. Fixation
17. Reproduction
18. Time
19. Space
20. Judgement
21. Conditions of Cognition
22. Integration & Disintegration
23. Observation
24. Springs of Action
25. Reflexes and Conduct
26. Volition
27. Volition
28. Pleasure & Unpleasure
29. Causes of Pleasure
30. Effects of Pleasure
31. Emotions
32. Self
33. Attention
34. Imitation
35. Some fundamental intellectual operations
36. Language
37. Work
38. Play
39. Spread of Training

1-8 are in file 1; 9-16 are in file 2; 17-24 are in file 3; 25-32 are in file 4; 33-39 are in file 5.

1930s

1 file (in 5 parts)

Deposited in the library at Wellcome Collection by the British Psychological Society in September 2008.

Compiled by the Cataloguing Project Archivist at the British Psychological Society History of Psychology Centre, with minor editing by Wellcome staff.