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Talks To Teachers On Psychology

by William James (1842–1910)

19 chapters, about 52,000 words. The text is in the public domain in the United States and comes from Project Gutenberg.

Chapters

1. PREFACE. 1,000 words
2. I. PSYCHOLOGY AND THE TEACHING ART 2,500 words
3. II. THE STREAM OF CONSCIOUSNESS 1,600 words
4. III. THE CHILD AS A BEHAVING ORGANISM 1,400 words
5. IV. EDUCATION AND BEHAVIOR 800 words
6. V. THE NECESSITY OF REACTIONS 1,000 words
7. VI. NATIVE REACTIONS AND ACQUIRED REACTIONS 800 words
8. VII. WHAT THE NATIVE REACTIONS ARE 3,700 words
9. VIII. THE LAWS OF HABIT 2,800 words
10. IX. THE ASSOCIATION OF IDEAS 2,300 words
11. X. INTEREST 1,500 words
12. XI. ATTENTION 2,800 words
13. XII. MEMORY 5,900 words
14. XIII. THE ACQUISITION OF IDEAS 1,700 words
15. #WHAT IS APPERCEPTION?# 2,700 words
16. XV. THE WILL 5,700 words
17. I. THE GOSPEL OF RELAXATION 5,800 words
18. II. ON A CERTAIN BLINDNESS IN HUMAN BEINGS 3,100 words
19. III. WHAT MAKES A LIFE SIGNIFICANT 4,900 words

Ideas discussed in this book

• Association (psychology)
• Attention
• Behavior
• Habit
• Memory
• Psychology

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