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Research in education.

Burt, Cyril

Pages: 1 –5

The methods of research are much the same in education as in other sciences: observation and description of individual children; questionnaires seeking data from large numbers; experimental investigation of specific problems, particularly by means of tests; genetic studies of growing children;...

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Experimental psychology.

Brown, W.

Pages: 6 –18

In the course of G.T. Fechner's research he developed a technique of experimentation, summed up in the so-called "psychophysical methods," which formed the starting-point of a new science, the science of experimental psychology. In its earliest development it was the work of one other man,...

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Reaction and reaction experiments.

Dawson, Shepherd

Pages: 19 –21

In psychology, however, the term reaction is generally limited to a pre-determined movement made in response to a pre-determined stimulus. In a reaction-experiment, the subject is instructed to react in a particular manner on perceiving a certain object. Reactions may be roughly classified as...

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Psychometry and psychophysics.

Thomas, G. H.

Pages: 22 –30

The term psychophysics is usually applied to a rather narrow domain of experimental psychology, namely, that concerned with the appreciation of sense differences. The term psychometry is less commonly used, and may perhaps be taken at its face value as covering all forms of mental measurement,...

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Statistics and educational experiments.

Isserlis, L.

Pages: 31 –38

This chapter provides a general introduction to statistical concepts in psychological and educational experiments, including the calculation of correlation ratios and coefficients. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2022 APA, all rights reserved)

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The psychology of the class.

Adams, J.

Pages: 39 –46

The older psychologists devoted themselves to the study of the individual, and to the mature individual at that. Recent developments have led to an investigation of the effects produced upon the individual by his intercourse with his fellows. Among the many "selves" recognized by modern...

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Visualization.

Ballard, P. B.

Pages: 47 –52

The investigation of the nature of mental images--and of visual images in particular--began with the researches of Francis Galton. He gives abundant evidence of the fact that, while some people can imagine a scene almost as clearly and vividly as though they were actually looking at it, others...

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The development of reasoning in children.

Burt, Cyril

Pages: 53 –63

Reasoning may be defined as the process whereby the mind passes from one or more judgments (called the premises) to a new judgment (called the conclusion), which the former are seen to imply. The psychological nature of this implication is obscure. The mind may be regarded as controlled...

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Child study.

Stephens, Kate

Pages: 64 –67

Child Study as a separate and also an important branch of education was first organized and developed under the direction of Dr. G. Stanley Hall. This chapter provides an historical overview of the Child Study Association and the Childhood Society. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2022 APA, all...

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Observation of children.

Jackson, S. F.

Pages: 68 –69

The present day insistence on direct observation of the conduct of children as the source of the data for a child psychology and a theory of training is the consequence of dissatisfaction with a theory based on the analysis of adult states of mind and formal static theory. The methods of...

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