Books with author William James Henderson

The story goes: A cute, naïve, promiscuous little girl quickly grows up and becomes a teenager. While growing between the ages of 1 year old and up to the age of 12 she was the typical well love, happy, obedient little girl who played with dolls, had pillow fights with her sisters, played dress up and did other things that normal little girl do. But as time passed and Veda progresses into her teen years she encounters a number of situations dealing with peer pressure that causes her to make some wrong choices in choosing friends which in due course leads to her experimenting with marijuana and alcohol As more time passes the promiscuous little girl progresses into a teenager and begins to hang with the wrong crowd, drinking, smoking pot, skipping school, stealing, her grades get worst, and slowly but surely her happy family life slowly falls apart. Veda’s parents couldn’t believe how quickly their once little innocent, beautiful girl had been changed into a problematic juvenile. They tried to do all they could to discipline and talk to her about her wrong choice in friends and her unacceptable behavioral change but it was to no avail. The demoralizing bad company, alcohol and drugs had distorted her perception of an obedient, respectable daughter...

In writing these “Talks” out, the author has gradually weeded out as much as possible of the analytical technicalities of the science. In their present form they contain a minimum of what is deemed “scientific” in psychology and are practical and popular in the extreme. “He combines, better than most writers, the thoroughly scientific with the truly practical, having something of value on every page for every teacher of every grade.” -L. H. Jones, Superintendent of Schools, Cleveland, Ohio “The psychology that forms the basis of the ‘Talks’ is presented in beautifully clear and simple English and well illustrated by examples drawn from the field of common observation. One can hardly help feeling as he reads that if psychology is not here shorn of its terrors for teachers, no other writer need hope to accomplish that task.” -The Dial “It is an admirable book – frank, suggestive, stimulating, like everything else the author has written.” -J. P. Gordy, Professor in Ohio State University, Columbus “James is a genius. His mental touch is quickening; his style grips attention; his thoughts teem with suggestion. He is a whole-souled, genial, witty man, as well as a great psychologist. A wizard at putting things.” -The Wooster Post-Graduate and Quarterly “A work of absorbing interest.” -Boston Transcript “His style has the quality of a communicable fervor, a clear, grave passion of sincerity and conviction.” -The Nation “When pedagogical libraries can show a preponderance of such books, they may well begin to rival the fiction departments in popularity.” -The Critic Table of Contents Preface Psychology and the Teaching Art The Stream of Consciousness The Child as a Behaving Organism Education and Behavior The Necessity of Reactions Native Reactions and Acquired Reactions What the Native Reactions are The Laws of Habit The Association of Ideas Interest Attention Memory The Acquisition of Ideas Apperception The Will Talks to Students on Some of Life’s Ideals

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William James (January 11, 1842 – August 26, 1910) was an American philosopher and psychologist, and the first educator to offer a psychology course in the United States.[5] James is considered to be a leading thinker of the late nineteenth century, one of the most influential philosophers of the United States, and the "Father of American psychology".[6][7][8]

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