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TRICK, E. A.: _The Fundamentals of Child Study_. The Macmillan Company, 1912. MUeNSTERBERG, H.: _Psychology, General and Applied_. D. Appleton & Company, 1914. MUeNSTERBERG, H.: _The Psychology of Industrial Efficiency_. Houghton Mifflin Company, 1913. PILLSBURY, W. B.: _Essentials of Psychology_. The Macmillan Company, 1916. PYLE, W. H.: _Outlines of Educational Psychology_. Warwick and York, 1912. PYLE, W. H.: _The Examination of School Children_. The Macmillan Company, 1913. ROWE, S. H.: _Habit-Formation and the Science of Teaching_. Longmans, Green, & Company, 1911. TITCHENER, E. B.: _A Beginner's Psychology_. The Macmillan Company, 1916. GLOSSARY Most of the terms given below are explained in the text, but it is hoped that this alphabetical list with brief definitions will prove helpful. It is a difficult task to make the definitions scientific and at the same time brief, simple, and clear. _Abnormal._ Having mental or physical characteristics widely different from those commonly found in ordinary people. _Acquired nature._ Those aspects of habit, skill, knowledge, ideas, and ideals that come from experience and are due to experience. _Action._ Muscular contractions usually producing motion of the body or of some part of the body. _Adaptation._ Adjustment to one's surroundings. _Adaptive._ Readily changing one's responses and acquiring such new responses as enable one to meet successfully new situations; also having tendencies or characteristics which enable one to be readily adjustable. _After-images._ Images that follow immediately after stimulation of a sense organ, and resulting from this stimulation. _Association._ Binding together ideas through experiencing them together. _Attention._ Relative clearness of perceptions and ideas. _Attitude._ The tendency toward a particular type of response in action or a particular idea or association in thought. _Bond._ The connection established in the nervous system which makes a certain response follow a certain stimulus or a certain idea follow another idea or perception. _Capacity._ The possibility of learning, achieving, etc. _Color blindness._ Inability to experience certain colors, usually red and green. _Complementary color._ Complementary colors are those which, mixed in the right proportion, produce gray. _Congenital._ Inborn. _Connection._ The nerve-path through which a stimulus produces a respons
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