CONTENTS:- Preface; The subject of applied psychology; Learning and skill; Thinking and suggestion; Work and rest; The effects of distraction upon achievement; Noise; The psychology of music and Morale; The psychology of the public platform; The psychology of writing and of art; Child psychology; Psychology applied in education; Psychiatry and mental hygiene.
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The first decade of the twentieth century marked the culmination of a shift in the subject-matter of psychology from mind to behaviuour. The shift was not sudden nor was it solely the product of the behaviourist movement. The latter movement was rather the climax to changes which began during the last two decades of the nineteenth century. Behaviour manifestations of mind had become more and more the objects of study until they acquired an interest status of their own and finally mind or mental reactions came to be treated as instances of behaviour. One of the remarkable consequences of this shift of emphasis and of the remarkable consequences of this shift of emphasis and of the broadening of the concept of behaviour has been that the behaviour of people the world over and not some highly abstract behaviour in the laboratory became the subject-matter of psychology.
