Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Original Title Page -- Original Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Preface -- 1 Child development -- Introduction -- Precursors -- Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1712-1778) -- Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi (1746-1827) -- Friedrich Froebel (1783-1852) -- The influence of Evolutionism -- Charles Darwin (1809-1882) -- Herbert Spencer (1820-1903) -- Systematic studies of children -- James Sully (1842-1923) -- Susan Isaacs (1885-1948) -- Arnold Gesell (1880-1961) -- John Brodus Watson (1878-1958) -- Jean Piaget (1896- ) -- Summary -- 2 Theories of personality formation -- Introduction -- Depth or psychoanalytic theory -- Social-field theories -- Instinct theory -- Allport's theory of functional autonomy -- Factoral or structural theories -- Conclusions -- 3 The psychology of learning -- Associationism -- Evolutionism -- Ebbinghaus's memory experiments -- Neurological and physiological studies -- Thorndike's animal experiments -- Watson and Behaviourism -- Learning by insight -- 4 Mental testing and measurement -- Early interest in the classification of the feebleminded -- The infiuence of the early experimental psychologists -- The contributions of Sir Francis Galton -- Cattell and other early mental tests -- Binet and the rise of intelligence tests -- Group tests -- Theories of mental structure -- Spearman's two-factor theory -- Thomson's sampling theory -- Burt's theory of hierarchical structure -- Thurstone's primary mental abilities -- The value and limitations of mental tests -- Further reading -- Bibliography