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Stuttering --- Personality. --- Psychological aspects.

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Deafness --- Agnosia --- Psychological aspects

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"The past dozen years have been important ones in the field of mental testing. In particular there has appeared a complete revision, extension, and doubling of the Stanford-Binet Scale, a large number of personality and aptitude tests and scales have been worked out and put into use, the technique of testing has been further developed and perfected, and much new evidence as to the nature of mental ability itself has been brought forth, especially under the headings of factor analysis and the study of primary abilities. The author in his revision has fully covered these more recent developments and studies and theories, thus making his text again, as it was originally, a comprehensive presentation of the field of mental testing up to the time of issue. The work of hundreds of individual investigators has been organized into a systematic treatise, and the place and work of each have been given their proper setting as parts of a great movement. The volume is accordingly again offered to teachers of college and university classes in the study of mental testing, and to individual students of the field, with confidence that it will prove even more useful as a textbook than did the earlier edition. The general plan of organization of this edition remains the same. The early chapters present an historical account of the development of mental tests; the middle chapters discuss the technique of testing and of the interpretation of the scores; and the concluding chapters discuss the application and interpretation of tests, with a more pronounced effort to cover tests with educational applications"--Book. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2006 APA, all rights reserved).

Psychological tests --- Evaluation. --- Social aspects.

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"The present volume is a cooperative work representing the results of wide research conducted by the authors during a number of years. In 1926, one of them published a favorably received study of "The Influence of Music on Behavior." Meanwhile, the other writer had been carrying on researches of a somewhat similar character, and had organized the results of musical studies which have been carried out during the last decade. It occurred to them to combine their results in the form of a General Psychology of Music, conceived on a different plan than any hitherto followed by writers on this subject. It appears to the authors of this book that most similar works offer a limited conception of music, having been written primarily for musicians, students of music, physicists, critics and other special classes of readers. It is assumed that music is an art or technique more or less divorced from life, and that the psychology of music is limited to a study of responses--to its mere elements, or, a discussion of the abstract relationships between such elements. We think of music as no isolated abstract art--a mere element of culture--but as a form or phase of culture inextricably blended with its other phases. In short, music is a form of living, influencing and influenced by every other form of living. We have traced the influence of music on religious and economic life, on philosophy, morals, and medicine. These facts account for the great amount of sociological material incorporated in these pages. If musical stimuli have really played such a role in biological evolution as our analysis suggests, the general influence of music on the organism is a deductive fact requiring no further proof. It is, however, of interest chiefly as a background to studies of specific musical effects, the presence of which, if found by experiment on a few individuals, would still be a doubtful basis for a generalization in the absence of some general conditions for the appearance of musical effects. By organizing all the available series of data on musical influences, from ethnology, sociology, and culture history, as well as from experiment, we may derive a convergent proof of the influence of music on the organism, which will be more satisfactory than one based on any single series of data with its inherent limitations. Our purpose then is to study the influence of music on the organism. We approach music from the practical rather than from the aesthetic stand-point, regarding it as a necessity, a possible means of re-education and human reconstruction for all, rather than a mere subject of unproductive pleasure, or an object for criticism from the learned few. Our general method will be genetic as well as experimental"--Introduction. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2015 APA, all rights reserved).

Music, Influence of. --- Music --- Psychological aspects.

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Music, Influence of. --- Music --- Psychological aspects.