ABSTRACT

Originally published in 1924, this sixth edition published in 1930 is thoroughly revised and updated to take account of the important advances in the field of child psychology at the time. In this new edition the personal standpoint is emphasized, while at the same time other psychological theories such as mental psychology, form psychology, psychoanalysis and individual psychology have been exhaustively treated, criticized and discussed in contradistinction to the theory of personality. Much fuller treatment has been given to the experimental examination of young children for purposes of research and tests, since it is in this form of investigation that major advances had been made. Today it can be read and enjoyed in its historical context.

part I|44 pages

General Considerations

chapter |11 pages

I The Aim and Development of Child-Psychology

ByWilliam Stern

chapter II|15 pages

Child-Psychology Methods

ByWilliam Stern

chapter III|17 pages

Psychic Development 1

ByWilliam Stern

part |1 pages

II

chapter |14 pages

IV The New-Born Child

ByWilliam Stern

chapter V|21 pages

The Development of Powers

ByWilliam Stern

chapter VI|24 pages

The Gain of Experiences

ByWilliam Stern

chapter VII|16 pages

Emotions of the First Year

ByWilliam Stern

part III|2 pages

Development of Speech 1

chapter VIII|11 pages

Preliminaries and Beginnings of Learning to Talk 1

ByWilliam Stern

chapter IX|10 pages

The Psychic Factors of Further Speech-Developoment 1

ByWilliam Stern

chapter X|20 pages

The Chief Periods of Further Speech-Development

ByWilliam Stern

chapter XI|5 pages

Tests and Measurement of Power of Speech

ByWilliam Stern

part IV|28 pages

Looking at Pictures

chapter |3 pages

XII Detailed Consideration of Looking at Pictures

ByWilliam Stern

chapter XIII|13 pages

Recognition of Pictures of Single Objects

ByWilliam Stern

chapter XIV|11 pages

The Recognition of Group-Pictures (Compositions)

ByWilliam Stern

part V|2 pages

Memory and Practice

chapter XV|6 pages

Recognition

ByWilliam Stern

chapter XVI|15 pages

Learning and Practice

ByWilliam Stern

chapter XVII|26 pages

Remembrance 1

ByWilliam Stern

chapter XVIII|9 pages

Experiments in Descriptive Observation (Aussage) 1

ByWilliam Stern

part VI|62 pages

Fantasy and Play

chapter XIX|23 pages

Characteristics of Fantasy in Early Childhood

ByWilliam Stern

chapter XX|7 pages

Dream-Fantasy

ByWilliam Stern

chapter XXI|14 pages

The Factors of Play-Activity

ByWilliam Stern

chapter XXII|17 pages

Chief Varieties of Play in Early Childhood

ByWilliam Stern

part VII|44 pages

Enjoyment and Creative Activity

chapter |3 pages

XXIII Preliminary Stages of Æsthetic Feeling

ByWilliam Stern

chapter XXIV|11 pages

Fairy-Tale Imagination and Pleasure in Confabulation

ByWilliam Stern

chapter XXV|10 pages

The Child and Music

ByWilliam Stern

chapter XXVI|19 pages

The Visible World

ByWilliam Stern

part VIII|1 pages

Thought and Intelligence

chapter XXVII|21 pages

Formation of Ideas and Judgment

ByWilliam Stern

chapter XXVIII|21 pages

Further Stages of Thought

ByWilliam Stern

chapter XXIX|23 pages

Experimental Tests of Mental Power

ByWilliam Stern

part IX|125 pages

Impulse—Emotion—Will—The Various Forms and Direotions of Endeavour

chapter |6 pages

XXX The Personal Psychology of Effort 1

ByWilliam Stern

chapter XXXI|22 pages

Effort in the Young Child

ByWilliam Stern

chapter XXXII|10 pages

Suggestion

ByWilliam Stern

chapter XXXIII|6 pages

Repression

ByWilliam Stern

chapter XXXIV|19 pages

The Ego in Childhood

ByWilliam Stern

chapter XXXV|16 pages

Fear and Nervousness (Anxiety)

ByWilliam Stern

chapter XXXVI|28 pages

The Child and Others

ByWilliam Stern

chapter XXXVII|9 pages

Necessity and Effects of Punishment

ByWilliam Stern

chapter XXXVIII|8 pages

Considerations on the Question of Lies

ByWilliam Stern

chapter |1 pages

Introductory Observations to Chapter XXX

The Various Forms of Endeavour
ByWilliam Stern

chapter Supplement I|8 pages

Expression-Movements in Children

Explanations of the Film-Photographs on Plates VIII to XI
ByKurt Lewin

chapter Supplement II|6 pages

Concerning the Various Magic Attitudes in Early Childhood

ByHeinz Werner