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Psychology as a science and a profession.

Lindgren, Henry Clay; Byrne, Donn

Pages: 3 –26

"What is psychology, anyway?" One of the more complex problems in communication that psychologists have to deal with from time to time is that of explaining psychology to laymen. Sometimes the question, "What is psychology, anyway?", comes from a chance acquaintance, like a fellow passenger on an...

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Human development: Infancy and childhood.

Lindgren, Henry Clay; Byrne, Donn

Pages: 29 –51

In the present chapter, we shall be describing in a very general way the sequence of processes and events that led up to our becoming the persons we are. Each of these processes and events is related to and affected by the processes and events that have gone before. One way of explaining current...

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Human development: Adolescence and adulthood.

Lindgren, Henry Clay; Byrne, Donn

Pages: 53 –76

Adolescence may be defined as that period or stage of development that comes between childhood and adulthood. Few people would quarrel with that definition. For one thing, it is rather obvious that children do not pass directly into adulthood; instead, they go through a stage in which they are...

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Physiological processes.

Lindgren, Henry Clay; Byrne, Donn

Pages: 79 –104

The major part of the discussion in this chapter will be devoted to a description of various aspects of human physiological structure and function. It is obvious, of course, that only a very brief overview of this area of physiology is possible within the space of one chapter. Nevertheless, we...

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The learning process.

Lindgren, Henry Clay; Byrne, Donn

Pages: 105 –127

Most of us tend to think of learning in terms of formal learning situations such as college lectures, dancing classes, or swimming lessons. It is obvious, however, that we were not born knowing the English language, how to button our coats, the difference between Brubeck and Brahms, or that...

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Perceptual processes.

Lindgren, Henry Clay; Byrne, Donn

Pages: 129 –151

Man's awareness of energy changes in the external world and within his own body is made possible by virtue of the functioning of those processes we know as perception. In this chapter we discuss some of the ways in which we learn to perceive and consider some of the general laws or principles of...

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Motivation and emotional behavior.

Lindgren, Henry Clay; Byrne, Donn

Pages: 153 –171

Both psychologists and laymen alike have an interest in understanding why people behave as they do. Indeed, it was this desire to probe the causes of behavior that led to the development of psychology as a science. The internal aspects of this causal background of behavior may be generally and...

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The psychologist's use of statistics.

Lindgren, Henry Clay; Byrne, Donn

Pages: 175 –191

For a good many persons, the mere mention of such words as "mathematics," "formula," or "equation" evokes mild feelings of anxiety. College students faced with the prospect of taking a course in statistics (or even the task of reading a chapter dealing with the subject) often seem overwhelmed by...

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Intelligence and creativity.

Lindgren, Henry Clay; Byrne, Donn

Pages: 193 –214

The intelligence test was a preliminary step to the development of various branches of applied psychology. The growth of educational psychology as an applied field was to a large degree stimulated by the fact that educators saw in the intelligence test a way of helping them group children in an...

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