CONTENTS:- Preface; Introduction; Analysis of various types of the learning process; Experiments with the school subjects; tests; Motivation, Feeling and Emotion; Methods of measuring and recording action; Studying animal behaviour.
DESCRIPTION
The earlier application of psychology to education dealt primarily with the development of general psychological principles, and secondarily with their application. The first consequence of this emphasis on the theoretical side was that, since there were no clear standards as to what was of most importance from the practical point of view, much time was spent on the elaboration of principles which were relatively unimportant for education. The second consequence was that, since the basis of classification was the psychological system, the facts or principles which applied to any particular problem, such as reading or writing, were scattered through various parts of a course instead of being focused on the practical problem itself.