Mental Work And Fatigue And Individual Differences And Their Causes
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491_9781443725705
EDUCATIONAL PSYCHOLOGY. VOLUME III. MENTAL WORK AND FATIGUE AND INDIVIDUAL DIFFERENCES AND THEIR CAUSES by EDWARD L. THORNDIKE. Originally published in 1914. PREFACE: This third volume presents the results of psychological studies of mental work and fatigue in Part I, and of indi vidual differences and their causes in Part II. Part II is a revision of a book, Educational Psychology, which appeared in 1903 and, in revised form, in 1910. Part I is entirely new. The same procedure of introducing topics by means of re ports of typical investigations, presenting instructive evidence as well as conclusions, and discussing the important principles of quantitative treatment in each case adopted in the earlier volumes is maintained. Teachers College, Columbia University, November, 1913. Contents include: I. MENTAL WORK AND FATIGUE DEFINITIONS AND PROBLEMS i Mental Work versus Bodily Work Mental Work versus Play and Mere Activity The Concept of Mental Fatigue II. THE DECREASE IN EFFICIENCY OF A SINGLE FUNCTION UNDER CONTINUOUS EXERCISE 13 A Sample Experiment The Amount and Rate of Fatigue of a Single Function III. THE CURVE OF WORK 45 Initial Spurt End Spurt Spurt after Fatigue and Spurt after Disturbance Rhythm of Attention Other Rhythmical Fluctuations Warming Up Adaptation Summary Speculative Analyses of the Cunre of Work The Curve of Satisfyingness IV. THE INFLUENCE OF CONTINUOUS MENTAL WORK, SPECIAL OR GENERAL, UPON GENERAL ABILITY 79 Experimental Results The Symptoms of Mental Fatigue The Relations of Muscular Work and Fatigue to Mental Wprk and Fatigue Vlii V. GENERAL THEORIES OF MENTAL WORK AND FATIGUE m Definitions Dodges Theory of Mental Work The Mechanical or Energy Theory and the Biological or Response Theory VI. THE HYGIENE OF MENTAL WORK 126 Means of Increasing Mental Efficiency Means of Preventing Injury frqm Over-work PART II VII. INTRODUCTION TO PART II 142 The Problems of Individual Differences A Concrete Illustration of the Problems of Individual Differ
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