Table of Contents

Editors Note -- Preface -- Introduction -- Chapter 1 Pedagogics and Psychology -- Pedagogics -- Psychology -- Educational Psychology -- Chapter 2 The Concept of Behavior and Reaction -- Behavior and Reaction -- The Three Components of a Reaction -- Reaction and Reflex -- The Inherited Reactions and the Acquired Reactions -- Inherited or lJnconditional Reflexes -- Instincts -- Origin of Inherited Reactions -- Conditional Reflexes -- Super-reflexes -- Complex Forms of Conditional Reflexes -- Chapter 3 The Most Important Laws of Higher Nervous Activity in Man -- The Laws of Inhibition and Disinhibition -- Psyche and Reaction -- Animal Behavior and Human Behavior -- The Build-up of Reactions into Behavior -- The Principle of the Dominant in Behavior -- Human Constitution and Human Behavior -- Chapter 4 Biological and Social Factors in Education Activity of the Educational Process and its -- Participants On the Goals of Education from the -- Psychological Standpoint Education as Social Selection -- Chapter 5 The Instincts as the Subject, Nkclianism, and Means of Education -- Origin of the Instincts -- Relationship Between the Instincts, Reflexes, and Reason -- Instincts and the Biogenetic Law -- Two Extreme Views of the Instincts -- Instincts as a Mechanism of Education -- The Concept of Sublimination -- Education of the Sex Instinct -- Psychological Preconditions of Co-education -- Pedagogical Application of the Interest -- The Child’s Interest -- The Pattern of the Child’s Interest -- The Psychological Value of Games -- Chapter 6 Education of Emotional Behavior -- The Concept of Emotion -- Biological Nature of Emotions -- Psychological Nature of the Emotions -- Educations of the Feelings -- Chapter 7 Psychology and Pedagogics of Attention -- Psychological Nature of Attention -- Description of Orientation -- Internal and External Orientation -- Attention and Distraction -- Biological Value of Orientation -- Educational Value of the Orientations -- Development of Attention -- Psychological Value of Anticipation -- Pedagogical Conclusions -- Atterit ion and Habit -- Physiological Counterparts of Attention -- The Overall Function of Attention -- Attention and Apperception -- Chapter 8 Reinforcement and Recollection of Reaction -- Concept of the Plasticity of Matter -- Psychological Nature of Memory -- Structure of the Process of Memory -- Typcs of Memory -- Individual Features of Memory -- Limits of Memory Training -- Interest and Emotional Tinge -- Forgetting and Incorrect Recall -- Psychological Functions of Memory -- Memory Techniques -- Recollections of Reactions: Two Types of -- Reality of Fantasy -- Functions of Imagination -- Education of Imaginative Behavior -- Chapter 9 Thinking as an Especially Complex Forr Behavior -- The Motor Nature of Mental Processes -- Conscious Behavior and Will -- Psychology of Language -- Id and Ego -- Pedagogical Conclusions -- Analysis and Synthesis -- Value of Thinking for Inner Education -- Chapter 10 Psychological Understanding of Occupational Education -- Types of Trade Schools -- Cognition of Nature Through Labor -- Coordinations of Labor Efforts -- Value of Effort in Labor -- Synthetic Knowledge -- Praxis -- Vocational and Polytechnism -- Chapter 11 Social Behavior and the Child’sDevelopmcnt -- The Concept of Adaptation -- The Child and the Environment -- The Contemporary Environment and -- Education -- Genuine Forms of Social Behavior Variations in the Development of Children -- Chapter 12 Ethical Behavior The Nature of Ethics from the Psychological -- Point of View Principles of Moral Education Moral Transgressions in Childhood -- Chapter 13 Esthetic Education -- Esthetics in the Service of Pedagogics -- Morality and Art -- Art and the Study of Reality -- Art as an End in Itself -- Passivity and Activity in Esthetic Experience -- Biological Value of Esthetic Activity -- Psychological Description of Esthetic -- Reactions Education of Creativity, Esthetic Reasoning, -- and Technical Skills Fables Esthetic Education and Natural Talent -- Chapter 14 Exercise and Fatigue -- On Habit -- Pedagogical Value of Exercise -- The Study of Fatigue -- Chapter 15 Abnormal Behavior -- The Concept of Abnormal Behavior -- Physically Disabled Children -- Mental Disability and Psychopathology -- Psychopathology of Everyday Life -- Hypnosis -- Chapter 16 Temperament and Character -- The Importance of Terms -- Temperament -- Structure of the Body and Character -- Four Types of Temperament -- The Problem of Career and Vocational Psychology -- Endogenic and Exogentic Features of -- Character -- Chapter 17 The Problem of Giftedness Individual Goals of Education -- Personality and Education -- Chapter 18 Basic Forms of Investigations of the Personality of the Child Experimental Psychological Investigation of the Personality Binet-Simon Method -- Chapter 19 Psychology and the Teacher -- The Psychological Nature of the Work of The Teacher -- Life as Creation -- Historical Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.

About the Author

L.S. Vygotsky,