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Title: Applied Psychology: Driving Power of Thought
Being the Third in a Series of Twelve Volumes on the
Applications of Psychology to the Problems of Personal and
Business Efficiency

Author: Warren Hilton

Release Date: July 4, 2010 [EBook #33076]

Language: English

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Applied Psychology

DRIVING
POWER OF THOUGHT

_Being the Third of a Series of
Twelve Volumes on the Applications
of Psychology to the Problems of
Personal and Business
Efficiency_

BY
WARREN HILTON, A.B., L.L.B.
FOUNDER OF THE SOCIETY OF APPLIED PSYCHOLOGY

ISSUED UNDER THE AUSPICES OF
THE LITERARY DIGEST
FOR
The Society of Applied Psychology
NEW YORK AND LONDON
1920

COPYRIGHT 1914
BY THE APPLIED PSYCHOLOGY PRESS
SAN FRANCISCO

(_Printed in the United States of America_)

CONTENTS

Chapter Page

I. JUDICIAL MENTAL OPERATIONS

VITALIZING INFLUENCE OF CERTAIN IDEAS 3
WORK OF PRINCE, GERRISH, SIDIS, JANET, BINET 4
THE TWO TYPES OF THOUGHT 5

II. CAUSAL JUDGMENTS

ELEMENTARY CONCLUSIONS 9
FIRST EFFORT OF THE MIND 10
DISTORTED EYE PICTURES 11
ELEMENTS THAT MAKE UP AN IDEA 12
CAUSAL JUDGMENTS AND THE OUTER WORLD 13

III. CLASSIFYING JUDGMENTS

THE MARVEL OF THE MIND 17
THE INDELIBLE IMPRESS 18
HOW IDEAS ARE CREATED 19
THE ARCHIVES OF THE MIND