Contributions to Education
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ISBN13: 9780217913300
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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: II. SOME RECENT CONSTRUCTIONS OF PSYCHOLOGIC, ETHIC, AND LOGICAL MODES THAT MUST BE RECOGNIZED IN A RATIONAL CONDUCT OF THE SCHOOL. The psychologist of today is laying stress on modes of action that received little attention from the student of mental science in the past. That almost total neglect was somewhat remarkable, for the reason that the non- scientific of high and low grade of culture recognized them and held definite opinions regarding their signification. The value of those opinions is enhanced in our estimation by the fact that the old terminology is in the main retained by the scientific investigators, who are gathering and organizing data as to the origin and function of imitation, habit, and attention; and, in so doing, are not only modifying and enlarging popular theory as to these modes of action, but are also constructing scientific theory. One of the earliest and fullest studies of imitation was made by Aristotle in The Poetic. In that work he bases his theory of the drama and kindred arts on imitation. The school ofmodern artists and litterateurs which regards the function of art to be the exact reproduction of the model is small, though the number of persons who accept the two causes of imitation as given by Aristotle is very large. Even when the psychologist began to look upon this activity as one which fell within his province, he accepted the delight of man in imitation, and his enjoyment of successful imitations, as sufficient explanation of its origin or cause. Certain modifications were noted as affecting the degree to which the attempt to copy is carried; as, for example, an energetic child is said to be more imitative than is a lethargic child, though the question as to the ratio of imitated acts to the whole activity in the different clas...
| ISBN-13 | 9780217913300 |
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| ISBN-10 | 021791330X |
| Weight | 0.54 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 9.00 x 6.00 x 0.37 In |
| List Price | $19.99 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 160 pages |
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| Published On | 2009-08-01 |
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