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Biber, Barbara; Murphy, Lois B.; Woodcock, Louise P.; Black, Irma S.

Pages: 33 –54

The children's behavior during the school day was observed and recorded in selective, descriptive records which not only noted the succession of events but also took account of the quality of the children's activity and the immediate context in which events took place. Guides prepared prior to...

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Skills and Attitudes in School Experience.

Biber, Barbara; Murphy, Lois B.; Woodcock, Louise P.; Black, Irma S.

Pages: 55 –108

This chapter describes the children's skills and attitudes during reading, writing, rhythm, and creative activity experiences in the school. Although there were wide variations in ability to read and in attitudes toward reading, it was plain that the children all wanted to be able to read and...

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Language and Thinking in Their Social Context.

Biber, Barbara; Murphy, Lois B.; Woodcock, Louise P.; Black, Irma S.

Pages: 109 –177

The first part of this chapter on language and thinking in the children's social context examines their mastery of the techniques of language. Specifically this section looks at their vocabulary, pronunciation, sentence structure, confusion of parts of speech, and slang. Next, the chapter...

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Introductory [Introduction to Part two].

Hudson, Thomas Jay

Pages: 161 –178

Considered from a purely psychological standpoint, the working hypothesis for mental healing which is set forth in Part I of this book seems to be complete and valid; that is to say, it fully and completely explains all the facts of purely mental healing that have yet been brought to light...

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Social Realities within the Group.

Biber, Barbara; Murphy, Lois B.; Woodcock, Louise P.; Black, Irma S.

Pages: 178 –233

The roof-play period represents the freest social situation of any which were recorded, since on the roof the group formations, the activities, the social code were almost entirely of the children's own making. An adult was almost always present but not active either in organizing or leading the...

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The physical mechanism through which mental healing is effected.

Hudson, Thomas Jay

Pages: 179 –193

Thus far in the history of the scientific investigation of mental therapeutics attention has been directed almost exclusively to the psychological aspects of the question. This was natural, for the simple reason that mental healing, as its name implies, is primarily a psychological phenomenon,...

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The physical mechanism through which mental healing is effected (continued).

Hudson, Thomas Jay

Pages: 194 –205

No one needs to be told that the nerves are the lines of communication through which the mind receives intelligence from, and issues its mandates to, every part of the body; but the special adaptation of the means to the ends is not so generally understood. It is not my purpose to inflict upon...

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The mechanism of inhibition.

Hudson, Thomas Jay

Pages: 206 –223

One of the most wonderful of the phenomena with which experimental psychology has to deal is that of the inhibition of physical sensation or of pain. Everybody has witnessed it in others or experienced it himself, for it is also a very common phenomenon. It can be produced experimentally, as when...

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Inhibition and sleep, natural and induced.

Hudson, Thomas Jay

Pages: 224 –233

I now resume the discussion of the phenomena of inhibition, for the purpose of considering the question, Does not this subjective power of inhibition afford a valid explanation of the mysterious phenomena of sleep, natural and induced? Much has been written on the subject of cerebral anatomy and...

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Animal magnetism, hypnotism, and laying on of hands.

Hudson, Thomas Jay

Pages: 234 –249

All that has been said in reference to the cause of sleep, whether natural or induced by the processes of hypnotism, applies with equal pertinency to that induced by the processes of mesmerism or so-called animal magnetism. The obvious reason is that the immediate or efficient cause of sleep is...

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