Genetic psychology : an introduction to an objective and genetic view of intelligence / by Edwin A. Kirkpatrick.

  • Edwin Asbury Kirkpatrick
Date:
1909
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Credit: Genetic psychology : an introduction to an objective and genetic view of intelligence / by Edwin A. Kirkpatrick. Source: Wellcome Collection.

    10/408 page VI
    In origin and plan of treatment, however, peda gogical interest has played a large part After nearly a score of years devoted to the study of child psychology, the impulse to formulate the broader truths of genetic psychology as a dis tinct subject came from the experience of giving courses in both subjects to summer students at Columbia and Chicago Universities. The inter est and comprehension shown by those students developed the belief that the facts of genetic psy chology, incomplete as they are, could be profitably formulated for the use of educators. Subsequent experience in giving parts of this book in nearly their present form, to a class in a normal school, has confirmed this belief. It is probable also that popular interest is great enough to make the book acceptable to the more serious of those interested in animal behavior. Teachers will be most inter ested in Chapters IX and X, treating of various types of intelligence. In working out the general principles of mental genesis it was found that the more specific problem of mental phenomena as organized in individual minds could not be satisfactorily treated till the general truths of organic activity and of mental genesis had been formulated, and that space would not admit of the treatment of both in a single volume. The author hopes to treat of mental development in individuals and some
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