Special talents and defects

Since reflective men began to record their speculations, theories have been expressed concerning the nature and relationships of mental functions. Plato in _The Republic_ contem...

Before verifiable facts can be established in a field of knowledge, it is necessary to introduce therein methods of enumeration and measurement. The question above propounded ha...

Psychologists no longer question that the product of mind, which we call behavior, by which mind is judged, is in some way intimately connected with the sensitivity and integrit...

It has been stated that most of the mental functions, which human beings perform, are not elementary, but are capable of analysis into many contributing factors. Reading has bee...

According to Meumann, the whole field of language is a unit, psychologically considered. Reading, spelling, composition, the learning of foreign languages should thus be intimat...

During the period of class teaching, all the poor spellers improved, as measured by the Ayres scale, but the three very poorest still remained at the bottom of the class. By int...

Arithmetic as a psychological process has been studied analytically by psychologists more assiduously than any other of the school subjects, except reading. The psychology of ar...

Manuel, who has made a careful psychological study of talent in drawing, defines drawing as follows: “The term _drawing_ designates a process of causing, by means of pencil, pen...

Among animals, only birds and men can produce music. Possibly, of these, men only can appreciate it. It is not agreed as to whether birds can appreciate music. They respond to i...

There are various mental functions which are now thought to be largely special, which have not yet been studied sufficiently to warrant extended discussion of each, yet which me...

If we try to imagine what the world would be like if there were absolute uniformity among human beings, we realize anew the precious worth of individuality. It is marvelous that...