Recent experiments in psychology
Leland W. Crafts, Theodore C. Schneirla, Elsa E. Robinson y Ralph W. Gilbert
- Nueva York (Estados Unidos) McGraw-Hill 1938
- xiv, 417 páginas
- McGraw-Hill publications in psychology .
The maze as an instrument in the study of learning -- The conditioning of vasomotor responses -- Forgetting during sleep and waking -- The effect of overlearning upon retention -- A comparison of memory for pleasant and unpleasant experiences -- Methods of breaking undesirable habits -- The influence of language on the reproduction of visually perceived designs -- "Direction" and the "solution consciousness" in reasoning -- A psychological study of "lightning calculation" -- The motor theory of thinking -- The relation between character traits and handwritigng -- The judgment of vocational aptitude and success from photographs. The origins of the cat's responses to rats and mice -- Migration and the "instinct" problem -- The behavior of the newborn human infant -- The persistence of motives as revealed by the recall of completed and uncompleted activities -- Cooperation and competition -- The physiology of emotional behavior -- Facial expression in emotion -- The representative and expressive effects of music -- The duplicity theory of vision -- Sensitivity in its importance for learning -- The function of the brain in relation to intelligence -- Organic nervous diseases in relation to behavior -- The electro-physiology of the nervous system -- The effect of distraction upon the performance of certain tasks -- A comparison of the intelligence of "racial" and national groups -- The abilities and personality traits of different occupational groups --