Practical psychology : for men and women in the industries and professions, and for the general reader / by Burt Byron Farnsworth.

Incluye índice.; Donado por José Joaquin Gómez, ex-Gobernador del Banco Central.

I. MACHINE WHICH THE MIND USES, 5 -- Applied psychology. Mental mastery. Relation of mind and body. Control of bodily activity. Ideas and bodily activity. Body a machine for doing work. Cell theory of life. The amoeba. The amphioxus. Human nervous system. Cellular intelligence. Cerebrospinal nervous system. Sympathetic nervous system. Consciousness, 5 -- II. SENSE-PERCEPTIVE PROCESSES, 30 -- World of waves. Differentiation of function. Sensation. Perception. What one can know. Interpreting impressions. Sense deception. Special senses, and what they furnish us. Sense limitations, 30 -- III. CONCEPTS AND JUDGMENTS, 55 -- Concepts. Formation of concepts. Relation of percepts to concepts. Analysis. Synthesis. Steps in concept formation. Value of clear concepts. Growth of intellect. Accuracy in generalization. Language and mental development. Judgment and judging. The raw material of judging. Training judgment. Judgment and progress, 55 -- IV. THE WORLD OF ASSOCIATION, 82 -- Association centers. Reaction time. Elements involved. Association areas. World of association. Idea does not appear in mind without reason. What is association? Normal process. Cause. Contiguity. Similarity. Distinguishing likenesses and differences. Power of association. Subconsciousness. Abnormal functioning. Dissociation. Time required to fix associations. Uncontrolled associations. Association and vocations, 82 -- V. MEMORY, 113 -- Memory. Remembering. Good memory. Basis of memory. Brain change permanent. Memory or memories. Types of memory. Retention. Recall. Recognition. Replacement. Elements in memory. Intensity. Recency. Frequency. Primacy. False memories. Short memories. Children's memories. Memory systems. How to remember. Intend to remember. Be interested. Associate logically. Understand material. Repetition and reviews. Concrete imagery. Ideas before words. Dormant memories. Limit of memory development, 113 -- VI. IMAGINATION, 134 -- Memory and material for imagination. Images, kinds of. Dalton's questions. Ability to form image. Test for images. Imagination and beliefs. Bias or prejudice. Distinction between idea and image. Imagination and environment. Control of imagination. Constructive imagination. Mental vision. Power of imagination. Limits of imagination, 134 -- VII. REASON OR HOW WE THINK, 158 -- Day dreaming. Choosing. Rationalization. Constructive thinking, Thinking of animals and of man. Instinctive action. Experience. Information. Intelligence. Discovering relationships. Cause of inaccurate thinking. Cause of thought. Thought processes. Original thought. Dewey's steps. Acquisitive and reflective powers. From particular to particular. From particular to general. Beginning of thought. Necessary beliefs. Inductive thinking. Deductive thinking. Judgment and thought. Laws of thought-parsimony, analogy, identity, contradiction, excluded middle. Test for thinking, syllogism, arrested thinking. Why persons differ in thinking. Use of reason in acquiring knowledge. Logical powers new in race, not yet stable, 158 -- VIII. WILL AND HABIT, 183 -- Universe is under law. Actions. Will and action. Will and motive. Will and neuron patterns. Types of will. Habits. Habits and will forming habits. Economy of habit. Habit formation is progressive. Openmindedness. Fixity of habit and its handicap. Perseverance. Second mental wind. Fatigue, its causes. Sleep. Incentives and their power. Lifting oneself to higher levels. Deliberation. Inhibition. Will and habit breaking. Will and knowledge. Field of knowledge. Plan for acquaintance, 183 -- IX. INTEREST AND ATTENTION, 207 -- Arousing attention. Stimuli. Epiphenomenalism. Purpose in animals and in men. Things attended to at different ages. Scope of attention. Attention and bodily accommodation. Selective factors. Catching the attention. Voluntary and involuntary attention. Interest. Effort. Natural interests. Divided interests. Ends and means often far apart. Training of interest and attention. New interests. Sources of interests. Physical universe, humanity, God. Concentrated attention. Sustained interest and attention, 207 -- X. SUBCONSCIOUSNESS, 230 -- Cellular intelligence. Changes in organism. Nerve energy. Types of behavior. Mind and growth of organs. Instincts. Instinctive behavior. Intelligent behavior. Freedom. Wakefulness of mind and body. Subconscious direction. Heredity. Lower and higher levels of mind complexes. Mental diseases. Nervousness and "nerves." Abnormal dissociations. Loss of memory. Functional diseases. Psychotherapy. Misconceptions about hypnosis. Hypnosis and sleep. Practical uses of psychotherapy. Psychoanalysis. Dreams. Hallucinations. Phobias. Hysterias and their cure, 230 -- XI. CONSCIOUS CONTROL, 257 -- Ideas possess innate energy. Emotional state and physical expression. Impellent energy. Tropisms. Ideas. Concentration. Mind mastery. Consciousness controls subconsciousness. Content of consciousness. Impulse. Instinct. Conscious control. Conscious control new to race. Limiting subconsciousness. Power of suggestion. "Know thyself." Ideal. The thing to be done. Discover latent resources. Mental assertion and physical effort act. Ability to do depends upon ability to know, 230 -- XII. TEMPERAMENTS, VOCATIONAL GUIDANCE, AND SUCCESS, 284 -- Temperaments. Achievements and endowments. Classification of temperaments sanguine, melancholy, choleric, phlegmatic. Reading character by observation. Vocational guidance by observational methods. Not enough facts. Cannot tell heredity, experience, nor training. Psychological tests. Not all born equal. Difference between knowledge and intelligence. Innate potentialities. Army tests and what they show. Occupations and professions. Know, control, and deny thyself. Success, its ideals and attainments. Success elements-knowledge, right, truth, justice, service, forgiveness. Ask for self only what one asks for all, 284 .

El propósito de estos debates ha sido para presentar en forma entendible algunos principios generalmente aceptados de la psicología y para indicar la forma en que se pueden aplicar al propio desarrollo y para la mejor comprensión de los demás.