Psychology in education / by Sidney L. Pressey, Francis P. Robinson and John E. Horrocks.

Includes bibliography and index.

Development through childhood and youth --The nature and fostering of learning --Working with the individual student .

Psychology in education is an attempt to recognize and draw on four features which the writers believe are now of major importance as regards contributions of psychology to education. First is the broadening and what might be called the coming-of-age of research in child development. Initially often preoccupied with infancy and the preschool years, child development is now tending to combine with the earlier somewhat separate work on adolescence; thus the growth years are seen in larger and more consistent perspectives. Understanding of development has been variously enriched, as by minutely detailed studies of physical growth, and the use of methods and material from sociology and cultural anthropology. And longitudinal studies that follow the growth of individuals, sometimes from infancy into adulthood, have revised certain earlier concepts-as in showing personality correlates of "early" and "late" maturing, and the possible substantial influence of environment on growth of ability.