Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from Essentials of Social Psychology
This book is written specifically for the purpose of developing the problem-solving method of education in the field of social psychology. T 0 this end the main attention has been given to the formulation of the problems which appear in connection with the themes Of each chapter. Each Of the problems has been tried out in the classroom and found to produce constructive thought on the part of students. These exercises are intended to set the student at work and to stimulate him to do his own thinking.
The instructor should encourage the pupils to begin the study Of each chapter with the problems. If the student has an inadequate background for giving his attention first to the exercises, he may read the con text, not as an end in itself, but as a method Of prepa ration for attacking the exercises. The context Of each chapter should not be remembered, but utilized as a means Of finding answers, seeing new relation ships, and making new discoveries. If the student comes into the class remembering, this book is ih tended to send him out thinking.
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