Mental Development in the Child and the Race: Methods and Processes (Classic Reprint) - Hardcover

James Mark Baldwin

9780260846426: Mental Development in the Child and the Race: Methods and Processes (Classic Reprint)

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For this reason the question Of arrangement was an excessively difficult one to me. The relations Of individual development to race development are so intimate the two are so identical, in fact - that no topic in the one can be treated with great clearness without assuming results in the other. SO any order Of treatment in such a work must seem finally to be only the least of possible evils.

My final arrangement of chapters presents, however, when a patient reader is in front Of the page, a fair degree of reason, I think. The earliest chapters (i. To. VI.) are devoted to the statement Of the genetic problem, with reports Of the facts Of infant life and the methods Of investigating them, and the mere teasing out of the strings Of law on which the facts are beaded the principles Of Suggestion, Habit, Accommodation, etc. These chapters have their own end as well, giving researches Of some value, possibly, for psychology and education. They serve their purpose also in the progress Of the book, as giving a statement of the central problem Of motor adaptation. Chapter V. Gives a detailed analysis Of one voluntary function, Handwriting. Then follows the theory of adaptation, stated in general terms in Chap ters VII. And VIII.; and afterwards comes a genetic view in detail (chaps. IX. To XVI.) Of the progress Of mental devel opment in its great stages, Memory, Association, Attention, Thought, Self-consciousness, Volition. SO the whole is a whole.

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James Mark Baldwin was an American philosopher and psychologist who helped start-up the department of psychology at Princeton University. He later on went to Johns Hopkins University where he was professor of psychology and philosophy. He is well noted for his work in the field of developmental psychology particularly the Baldwin Effect. He is the author of numerous books including Thought and Things, Mental Development in the Child and the Race, and Story of the Mind.

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