Encyclopedia of Psychology

Abstract

PERHAPS the fairest way of judging a work of this kind is to consider the relative amounts of space allotted to different topics. Considered in such a way, the present volume presents a somewhat queer picture. “Counseling in Student Personnel Work” occupies six pages, “Memorisation” rather less than two not particularly effective pages of a general article called “Genetic Psychology”. “Experimental Psychoanalysis”and “Experimental Abnormal Psychology” receive together more than double the space allowed to “Experimental Psychology”. “Por-, teus Maze Tests”, no doubt excellent devices of their kind but after all not the only ones, get eight pages all to themselves, and “Lie Detection” has just about the same prominence as “Learning”. “Rat in Animal Psychology” absorbs thirty-two pages, “Industrial Psychology” two and a half. “Semantics” (Language) runs to thirty-four pages, and “Intelligence Testing a” d Tests ” to four. Speaking generally, problems of a pathological order receive very much more attention than anything else.

Encyclopedia of Psychology

Edited by Philip Lawrence Harriman. Pp. ix + 897. (New York: Philosophical Library, Inc., 1946.) 10 dollars.