Psychological Bulletin (volume 19)

Synopsis

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1922. Excerpt: ... of psychology in America needs no demonstration. What the younger generation may not appreciate is the unusual mingling in his make-up of genuine greatness and childish na vet . The latter element is not merely of special psychological interest. It goes far toward refuting the political aspersions which embittered M nsterberg's last years. Howard C. Warren Princeton University. G. M. Stratton. Developing Mental . Boston: 1922. Pp. 72. As stated in the editor's introduction, the purpose of this monograph is to help settle in the teacher's'mind the long-argued question as to the relative importance of special mental faculties, and the transfer of training. The method of such settlement consists in restating the evidence of both sides and then presenting a greater and wiser philosophy which seeks to harmonize all evidence to the great joy of all educators everywhere. If one reads the evidence carefully, there lurks a suspicion that at least one school of thought is not treated as impartially as the other, and if one forget for a moment that a new theory is being advocated, he finds himself reading a defense of the other partially disguised under new words. For example, we read that The experiments in clear support of this doctrine, however--that you train merely what you train--are few; most experiments contradict it (p. 12). Citation of the contradictory experiments is meager, and in just what manner the experiments fall short of proving the point is left to the imagination. Under equally general terms, the results of experiments to the contrary cited on pages 32 and 33 present no statistical data so that we may judge for ourselves just how great the improved scores were, and so unfortunately we can...