Psychology and the Day's Work: A Study in the Application of Psychology to Daily LifeC. Scribner's Sons, 1919 - 388 páginas "Psychology considered as the science of human behavior is concerned with man's response to the impressions made upon him by objects, people, and events. They make up the situations that he meets. Behavior--the individual's way of dealing with these situations--if not a complete failure, results finally in some sort of adjustment to the conditions in which one lives; and this adjustment culminates in social and moral habits, in habits of work, in ways of thinking and acting; in short, in habits of life. And through all the adapting process runs the influence of physiological conditions, and the effect of their changes caused by the manner of life and the advance of years. The adjustment may be mechanical and rigid, insensible to misfits, without power to readjust as conditions alter; or, again, it may be flexible and adaptive--capable of new adjustments as circumstances change. This adjustment represents the capacity of man for achievement. It is his efficiency--the strategy and tactics of life. It is well, then, from time to time to take an inventory of stock and try to discover the significance of the facts and principles of human behavior which investigation has revealed. Concerning the more common matters of every-day life, however, psychologists have offered relatively little of interpretative value. Yet these experiences make up the day's work. They determine its quantity and quality. Much has been written about making others efficient, but comparatively little about one's own method of thinking, working, and acting. Yet knowing oneself reaches far into success and failure; and there is no other way of understanding the behavior of others. It is, therefore, in the hope of interpreting a few of these personal experiences of daily life that this book is written. The topics that could be discussed extend far beyond the limits of a single volume. The choice, of course, is largely personal, but the writer has tried to select types of conduct, as well as phases and causes of behavior, that are fundamental to thinking and acting, whether in the life of social intercourse or in the business and professional world. And, after all, thinking and acting determine achievement"--Preface. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2008 APA, all rights reserved). |
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... stimulate to con- tinuous effort toward better efficiency . This is not merely that we may be shown how to do the work more effec- tively but that the improvement - stimulus may be con- 22 PSYCHOLOGY AND THE DAY'S WORK.
... stimulate to con- tinuous effort toward better efficiency . This is not merely that we may be shown how to do the work more effec- tively but that the improvement - stimulus may be con- 22 PSYCHOLOGY AND THE DAY'S WORK.
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... stimulating or inert . When stimulat- ing it arouses ambition , effort , and will - the determination 1 William Wirt , Sketches of the Life and Character of Patrick Henry , vol . I , to achieve but if it is inert the adaptation is P. 24 ...
... stimulating or inert . When stimulat- ing it arouses ambition , effort , and will - the determination 1 William Wirt , Sketches of the Life and Character of Patrick Henry , vol . I , to achieve but if it is inert the adaptation is P. 24 ...
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... stimulating writers on business efficiency . " They don't want to learn new ways . " This is because " their own way " has become " fixed " in their nervous system , and it suggests the rule of action for making habits our allies in ...
... stimulating writers on business efficiency . " They don't want to learn new ways . " This is because " their own way " has become " fixed " in their nervous system , and it suggests the rule of action for making habits our allies in ...
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... stimulation of discovery . The difference between the dearth of interest under these conditions and in the presence of a real problem to be worked out , with an end that is worth while , was shown in a country school . There were no ...
... stimulation of discovery . The difference between the dearth of interest under these conditions and in the presence of a real problem to be worked out , with an end that is worth while , was shown in a country school . There were no ...
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... stimulated , continue their activity after the stimulation has ceased . At least this seems to be the explanation demanded by the observed facts . Applying this to a learner's task in any field , if the study of new material is ...
... stimulated , continue their activity after the stimulation has ceased . At least this seems to be the explanation demanded by the observed facts . Applying this to a learner's task in any field , if the study of new material is ...
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