1. Introduction 2. Supposed Mental Faculties and their Training 3. The Modern Psychological View of Mental Abilities 4. Desire and Striving, Pleasure, Emotions and Sentiments 5. Are There Human Instincts? The Innate Bases of Conduct and ‘Drives’ 6. Sympathy, the Parental Impulse, Fear and Disgust 7. Anger, Pugnacity and Aggressiveness; Self-Assertion and Self-Submission 8. Suggestion, Imitation and Gregariousness 9. Sex and Sex Education 10. The Unconscious, Repression, Sublimation, and Some Freudian Ideas on Sex 11. The Inferiority Complex and Some Other Complexes and Neuroses 12. Temperament and the Co-ordination of Innate Tendencies 13. Sentiments, Volition, Character, and Moral Habits 14. Play, and "The Play-Way" in Education 15. Acquisitive, Collecting, Manipulative, and Constructive or Creative Tendencies 16. Curiosity, Special Interests and the Popularity of School Subjects 17. Mental Work, Interest and Attention 18. The Span and Division of Attention or Apprehension 19. Learning and Remembering 20. Learning Movements and the Acquisition of Skill 21. Thinking, and Training in Reasoning 22. Imagination and Fluency 23. General Intelligence and Intelligence Tests 24. Special Abilities and their Testing 25. Estimating Temperament, Personality or Character 26. Educational Guidance, School Records, and Attainment Tests 27. Vocational Guidance 28. The Appreciation of Beauty and Aesthetic Education (Nature and Visual Art) 29. The Appreciation of Beauty and Aesthetic Education (Music) 30. The Appreciation of Beauty and Aesthetic Education (Poetry) 31. Development in Infancy 32. Middle Childhood and its Interests 33. Adolescence (General, Social and Emotional) 34. Adolescence (Intellectual and Out of School Interests) 35. Backward Children, Problem Children, and Young Delinquents 36. Mind and Body. Appendix: Correlation and Other Common Statistical Terms. Index to Names. Index of Subjects.
Biography
C.W. Valentine
