This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1914 edition. Excerpt: ... CHAPTER XXXIII CULTURAL PSYCHOLOGY The Outlying Fields of Psychotechnics.--Psychotechnical sciences are needed wherever mankind stands hefore purposes of civilization which are related to mental life. We have discussed four such purposes, the securing of education, justice, economic progress, and health. It ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1914 edition. Excerpt: ... CHAPTER XXXIII CULTURAL PSYCHOLOGY The Outlying Fields of Psychotechnics.--Psychotechnical sciences are needed wherever mankind stands hefore purposes of civilization which are related to mental life. We have discussed four such purposes, the securing of education, justice, economic progress, and health. It is evident that they do not constitute the totality of aims toward which the social consciousness is directed. We confined our discussion to these four fundamental groups, because the psychotechnical work there has been relatively best developed. But it is evident that many other significant purposes of civilization suggest similar psychotechnical efforts. Politics and social reform, morality and religion, art and science depend upon mental functions as much as education, law, industry and medicine. Moreover everyone of these great aims branches out in many directions. The economic progress might be served by psychotechnical aid to agriculture or to mining as well as to manufacture and commerce; and few branches of the economic life are more significant and more accessible to psychology than home economics and domestic activities of every kind. We may have a psychotechnics of navigation and of transportation, or to point in quite different directions a psychotechnics of social intercourse and of sport, or again, a psychotechnics of war, with its abundance of problems. The whole social organism from the simplest intercourse of man with man to the most complex cooperation of mankind may profit from the systematic application of psychological methods and psychological laws. Every great social problem which agitates the public mind can be discussed on its highest level only when the mental factors involved are not treated from the standpoint of a...
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