Mind and Behavior: 5 Classic Psychological Books
Foundations of Experimental Psychology, Intelligence Testing, Work, and Social BehaviorBy Bolton Hall, Alfred Binet, Théodore Simon, Lillian Moller Gilbreth, Frank B. Gilbreth, Wilhelm Max Wundt, Harry L. Hollingworth, Albert T. Poffenberger
Length25h 38m
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Mind and Behavior: 5 Classic Psychological Books gathers foundational texts from the formative decades of scientific psychology, when questions of sensation, intelligence, work, learning, and human efficiency were being newly subjected to experiment and measurement. Across laboratory manuals, intelligence-testing studies, industrial analyses, and reflections on mental life, the volume ranges from rigorous empirical prose to practical social inquiry. Its standout concerns—the quantification of individual difference, the organization of labor, and the relation between mind and action—illuminate psychology's emergence as both a science and a public instrument. The contributors collectively represent major currents in early modern psychology: experimental psychology, psychometrics, applied psychology, and scientific management. Wilhelm Wundt's laboratory-centered legacy provides an important intellectual horizon, while Alfred Binet and Théodore Simon's work on intelligence assessment marks a decisive development in educational and clinical practice. Lillian Moller Gilbreth, Frank B. Gilbreth, Harry L. Hollingworth, Albert T. Poffenberger, and Bolton Hall broaden this field toward workplace behavior, efficiency, social reform, and everyday conduct. Their differing assumptions and methods reveal the ambitions as well as the ethical tensions of applied psychological knowledge. This collection is especially recommended for students of psychology, education, labor history, and the human sciences. It offers a rare opportunity to compare influential styles of inquiry within one volume, tracing productive dialogues between experiment, measurement, and social application. Readers will find both historical instruction and enduring questions about how minds—and behavior—are understood.
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GenrePsychology, Literary Classics
Length25 hrs 38 mins
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Publish dateMar 4, 2025
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1The Writer's Journey: 4 Classic Books on Literary Success and Authorship
2An Introduction to Psychology
3CHAPTER I
4CHAPTER III
5CHAPTER V
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6The Sense of Taste
7The Sense of Taste
8PREFACE
9ILLUSTRATIONS
10CHAPTER I The Qualities of Taste
11CHAPTER II The Organization of the Tastes
12CHAPTER III The Sensitiveness of Taste
13CHAPTER IV Time Relations of Taste Qualities
14CHAPTER V The Sense Organ of Taste
15CHAPTER VI Sensory Elements of the Taste Mechanism
16CHAPTER VII Taste-Producing Substances
17CHAPTER VIII Function of the Taste Mechanism
18CHAPTER IX The Development of Taste in the Individual
19CHAPTER X Evolution of Taste
20CHAPTER XI Gustatory Imagination and Memory
21CHAPTER XII Unusual and Abnormal Taste Experiences
22CHAPTER XIII Food and Flavor
23CHAPTER XIV The Æsthetic Value of Taste
24The psychology of sleep
25INTRODUCTION
26FOREWORD
27CHAPTER I SLEEP
28CHAPTER II HOW MUCH SLEEP
29CHAPTER III THE TIME OF SLEEP
30CHAPTER IV WHAT SLEEP MAY MEAN
31CHAPTER V HOW TO GO TO SLEEP
32CHAPTER VI SLEEP IS NATURAL
33CHAPTER VII THE DUPLEX MIND
34CHAPTER VIII WAKEFULNESS
35CHAPTER IX SIMPLE CAUSES OF WAKEFULNESS
36CHAPTER X “LIGHT” SLEEPERS
37CHAPTER XI THE GIFTS OF WAKEFULNESS
38CHAPTER XII THE PURPOSE OF SLEEP
39CHAPTER XIII THE SLEEP OF THE INVALID
40CHAPTER XIV THE SLEEPLESSNESS OF PAIN
41CHAPTER XV OPIATES
42CHAPTER XVI DEVICES FOR GOING TO SLEEP
43CHAPTER XVII MORE DEVICES FOR GOING TO SLEEP
44CHAPTER XVIII STILL FURTHER DEVICES
45CHAPTER XIX HYPNOTIC SLEEP
46CHAPTER XX “PERCHANCE TO DREAM”
47CHAPTER XXI NATURAL LIVING
48CHAPTER XXII FRESH AIR AND REFRESHING SLEEP
49CHAPTER XXIII THE BREATH OF LIFE
50CHAPTER XXIV. EATING AND SLEEPING
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