Applied Psychology, Its Principles and Methods

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D. Appleton, 1927 - 586 pages
 

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Page 54 - Whereas, Heredity plays a most important part in the transmission of crime, idiocy and imbecility. "Therefore, Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Indiana. That on and after the passage of this Act it shall be compulsory for each and every institution in the State entrusted with the care of confirmed criminals, idiots, rapists and imbeciles, to appoint upon its staff, in addition...
Page 165 - ... escape from the stifling heat. Clothing was soon stripped off. Breathing became difficult. There were vain onslaughts on the windows ; there were vain efforts to force the door. Thirst grew intolerable, and there were ravings for the water which the guards passed in between the bars, not from feelings of mercy, but only to witness in ghoulish glee the added struggles for impossible relief. Ungovernable confusion and turmoil and riot soon reigned. Men became delirious.
Page 515 - The atrocities of life become "like a tale of little meaning though the words are strong" ; we doubt if anything like us ever really was within the tiger's jaws, and conclude that the horrors we hear of are but a sort of painted tapestry for the chambers in which we lie so comfortably at peace with ourselves and with the world. Be this as it may, fear is a genuine instinct, and one of the earliest shown by the human child.
Page 343 - Almost always, where a child displays talent, he also displays interest. It might not be amiss to extend McDougall's conception of the connection of instincts and emotions so as to speak of a native interest as the affective side of a native capacity. Along with the capacity for music goes the musical interest; along with the capacity for handling numerical relations goes an interest in numbers ; along with the capacity for mechanical devices goes the interest in mechanics; along with the capacity...
Page 440 - Now what shall we feed the rats? We will feed the rats the carcasses of the cats after they have been skinned. Now GET THIS We feed the rats to the cats, and the cats to the rats, and get the cat skins for nothing.
Page 28 - I found the outside to be composed entirely of spikes, all laid with symmetry, so as to present the points of the nails outward. In the center of this mass was the nest, composed of finely divided fibers of hemp-packing.
Page 28 - ... carving knife, fork and steel; several large plugs of tobacco ... an old purse containing some silver, matches and tobacco; nearly all the small tools from the tool closets, with several large augers ... all of which must have been transported some distance, as they were originally stored in different parts of the house. The outside casing of a silver watch was disposed of in one part of the pile, the glass of the same watch in another, and the works in still another.
Page 476 - Sitting reading late one night, I suddenly heard a most formidable noise proceeding from the upper part of the house, which it seemed to fill. It ceased, and in a moment renewed itself. I went into the hall to listen, but it came no more. Resuming my seat in the room, however, there it was again, low, mighty, alarming, like a rising flood or the avant-courier of an awful gale.
Page 165 - Englishmen whom he had that day captured in a siege of the city of Calcutta. The room was large enough to house comfortably but two persons. Its heavy door was bolted; its walls were pierced by two windows barred with iron, through which little air could enter. The night slowly passed away, and with the advent of the morning death had come to all but a score of the luckless company. A survivor has left an account of...
Page 252 - Hollingworth says: The speed of performance in typewriting is quickened by small doses of caffeine and retarded by large doses. The quality of the performance, as measured by the number of errors, both corrected and uncorrected, is superior for the whole range of caffeine doses to the quality yielded by the control days. Both types of errors seem to be influenced to about the same degree. The increase in speed is not gained at the expense of additional errors, but increased speed and decreased number...

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