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Wozniak Mind & Body #14. Bain's first book and the first modern textbook of psychology, The Senses and the Intellect dominated English psychology for decades.
Brown's most important book, the later editions of which were co-authred with Godfrey Thomson.
Butcher, who was professor of higher education at the University of Manchester, took over the Manuals of Psychology series in 1968.
No copies listed in OCLC.
An early attempt to build a model of intelligence that could be simulated by a computer, based on a synthesis of the ideas of Hebb, Piaget, and Sokolov. The author was at the University of Pennsylvania's Moore School of Engineering.
Developmental study of chldren at The Crèche, an instiution for homeless children in Beirut, Lebanon, which demonstrated that cognitive deprivation in childhood produces a permanent deficiency in intellectual functioning.
Empirically verifies several Piagetian hypotheses using cross-cultural tests.
Part I is a study of average children, Part II of the idiosyncrasies of gifted children, while Part III contains the statistical data.
Contains Khalfa's introductory essay; Richard Gregory's "Seeing Intelligence";, Nicholas Mackintosh's "Intelligence in Evolution"; George Butterworth's "Infant Intelligence"; ROger Schank & Lawrence Birnbaum's "Enhancing Intelligence"; Roger Penrose's "Mathematical Intelligence";, Simha Arom's "Intelligence in Traditional Music"; Daniel Dennett's "Language and Intelligence";, and Dan Sperber's "Understanding Verbal Understanding."
GM 1446.1; Diamond 10.9
Probably the most seminal 20th century work on localization of cerebral function. On the basis of his experimental work Lashley here posited two significant principles of enduring significance in neuropsychology: mass action and equipotentiality. Mass action postulated that certain types of learning are mediated by the cerebral cortex as a whole, contrary to the view that every psychological function is localized. Equipotentiality, associated chiefly with sensory systems such as the visual, states that some parts of a system can take over the functions of other parts.
Biography of Barbar Follett (1914-1939), a child prodigy who published her first book at age 14 but who disappeared in 1939, never to be seen again.
Contains Piaget & Inhelder's "Mental Images" & "Intellectual Operations & Their Development."
Contains chapters on: Music and Speech Processing in the First Year of Life by Sandra E. Trehub, Laurel J. Trainor, and Anna M. Unyk; Effects of Feeding Method on Infant Temperament by John Worobey; The Development of Reading by Linda S. Siegel; Learning to Read: A Theoretical Synthesis by John P. Rack, Charles Hulme, and Margaret J. Snowling; Does Reading Make Your Smarter? Literacy and the Development of Verbal Intelligence by Keith E. Stanovich; Sex-of-Sibling Effects: Part I. Gender Role, Intelligence, Achievement, and Creativity by Mazie Earle Wagner, Herman J. P. Schubert; The Concept of Same by Linda B. Smith; Planning as Developmental Process by Jacquelyn Baker-Bennett, Eugene Matusov, and Barbara Rogoff.
Appraises the status of knowledge in eugenic research.
Refutations of Jensen by Christopher Jencks, Jane Mercer, Stephen Strickland, David Layzer, Wayne C. Brown, Carl Senna, Richard Lewontin, & David Robinson.
A contribution to the then (as now) raging nature/nurture debate.
Papers delivered at a sympsoium held during the 139th meeting of the British Association for the Advancement of Science at the University of Aston in Birmingham, September, 1977. Both editors were anthropologists at the University of Durham, England. Contains M. R. A. Chance, Introduction, and The Social Structure of Attention and the Operation of Intelligence; Christopher E. Parker, Opportunism and the Rise of Intelligence; M. J. Waterhouse, "Aspects of the Evolution of Intelligence: Problem-Solvijng and the Environment; Paul Leyhausen, "The Unlearned in Learning; Liam Hudson, Flexibility as a Frame of Mind; Nicholas Humphrey, Nature's Psychologists.
Wozniak Classics in Psychology, 1855-1914: Historical Essays, pp. 30-34 [from which my account is largely taken]; Boring A History of Experimental Psychology [1929 edition], pp. 606 & 666; Zusne Biographical Dictionary of Psychology p. 419. The foundation text for scientific psychology in France. The first volume contains Taine's psychology proper, while the second volume is primarily epistemological in orientation. "Of particular importance for future directions taken by French scientific psychology were Taine's positivism, reductive sensationalism [derived from Condillac], theory of hallucination, analysis of memory, and recognition of the existence of unconscious mentality" [Wozniak, p. 31]. For Taine it was sensations that correspond to external reality, with mental images representing sensations, while general ideas were reduced to names that signified the images standing for sensations. Taine explained hallucinations as images that lacked a normally present second state that extinguished the images' external location. In his discussion of memory Taine emphasized the central role played by the degree of attention to the original event. By emphasizing the importance of unconscious mental processes and by relying greatly on data drawn from psychopathology and exceptional mental states, Taine "initiated the French tradition that the normal mind is to be understood by a study of the abnormal" [Boring].Perhaps the greatest 19th century positivist contribution to psychology, Taine's book laid out a program for keeping psychological generalizations tied to experimental facts (his positivism). Binet dated the birth of experimental psychology in France to the publication of De l'intelligence in 1870. Taine greatly influenced Ribot, Janet and Binet. He "brought the study of psychopathology within the ambit of the new science as it emerged in France; and, in so doing, he helped impart to French psychology its distinctive character" [Wozniak, p. 34].
Wozniak Classics in Psychology 1855-1914, pp. 30-34.
A key book in the emergence of modern psychology in France and perhaps the greatest 19th century positivist contribution to psychology. "Of particular importance . were Taine's positivism, reductive sensationalism, theory of hallucination, analysis of memory, and recognition of the existence of unconscious mentality" [Wozniak p. 31].
Wozniak Classics in Psychology 1855-1914, pp. 30-34.
Perhaps the greatest 19th century positivist contribution to psychology, Taine's book — which everybody with a serious interest in psychology seems to have read at the time — laid out a program for keeping psychological generalizations tied to experimental facts. It is not so much a study of intelligence as probably the best period survey of what was going on in psychology.
Diamond 13:10. Contains Thorndike's 1897 thesis of the same title along with subsequent experimental studies of animal learning. Articulated the 'law of effect' and introduced puzzle boxes and the concept of 'trial and error learning'. See Boring 1950 pp. 562-3.
OCLC records 8 copies: Univ of Calif, Berkeley; Univ of Colorado at Boulder; Illinois State Univ; Monmouth Univ; Northwestern Univ; Southern Illinois Univ; Univ of Illinois; Indiana Univ. The author's master of arts thesis in the Indiana University School of Education. OCLC lists her under her married name "Smith."
Chapters on the creative process in poets and writers, in composers, in scientists, in mathematicians; on the role of chance in the creative process; the origins of genius; etc.
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