Colorado College Publication: Education and psychology series, Volume 1, Issue 1authority of the Board of Trustees of Colorado College., 1919 - 100 pages |
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Page 36 - Their specific purposes are to aid : 1. In the discovery of men whose superior intelligence suggests their consideration for advancement; 2. In the prompt selection and assignment to development battalions of men who are so inferior mentally that they are suited only for selected assignments; 3. In forming organizations of uniform mental strength where such uniformity is desired; 4. In forming organizations of superior mental strength where such superiority is demanded by the nature of the work to...
Page 29 - ... sensations); a term by which to designate the observation of these factors would be very useful, and 'introspection' is the legitimate term for the purpose, since these factors are the real 'inner' ones of which psychology has been talking for so long a time; but in view of the word's quite disreputable past it is probably better to banish it for the present from psychological usage. KNIGHT DUNLAP THE JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY NOTE. — After the foregoing discussion was placed in the hands of...
Page 7 - I do not wish unduly to criticize psychology. It has failed signally, I believe, during the fifty-odd years of its existence as an experimental discipline to make its place in the world as an undisputed natural science.
Page 28 - I firmly believe that two hundred years from now, unless the introspective method is discarded, psychology will still be divided on the question as to whether auditory sensations have the quality of 'extension,' whether intensity is an attribute which can be applied to color, whether there is a difference in 'texture' between image and sensation and upon many hundreds of others of like character.
Page 36 - Battalions of men who are so inferior mentally that they are suited only for selected assignments; (3) In forming organizations of uniform mental strength where such uniformity is desired; (4) In forming organizations of superior mental strength where such superiority is demanded by the nature of the work to be performed ; (5) In selecting suitable men for various army...
Page 29 - There is, as a matter of fact, not the slightest evidence for the reality of 'introspection' as the observation of 'consciousness.
Page 26 - ... clearly will the uniformity of experience stand out, and the better is your chance of discovering laws. All experimental appliances, all laboratories and instruments, are provided and devised with this one end in view : that the student shall be able to repeat, isolate and vary his observations. — The method of psychology, then, is observation. To distinguish it from the observation of physical science, which is inspection, a looking-at, psychological observation has been termed introspection,...
Page 36 - In the early formation of training groups within regiment or battery in order that each man may receive instruction and drill according to his ability to profit thereby; (7) In the early recognition of the mentally slow as contrasted with the stubborn or disobedient; (8) In the discovery of men whose low grade intelligence renders them either a burden or a menace to the service.
Page 39 - A Survey of Psychological Investigations with Reference to Differentiations between Psychological Experiments and Mental Tests,
Page 34 - Ross could excuse his trepidation in putting out his book on the ground that it was " the first treatise, in any language, professing to deal systematically with the subject...