Individual Differences[64] The life of a man is a double series--a series of effects produced in him by the rest of the world, and a series of effects produced in that world by him.
The Measurement of Individual Differences With the growing sense of the importance of individual differences in human nature, attempts at their measurement have been essayed.
Assimilation and the Mediation of Individual Differences 766 III.
While it has been stated that the teacher should take notice of individual differences in his pupils, it may be advisable also to warn the student-teacher against any extravagant tendency in the direction of such a study.
By child study is meant the observation of the general characteristics and the leading individual differences exhibited by children during the periods of infancy, childhood, and adolescence.
It is certain that he can largely influence the character of a breed by selecting, in each successive generation, individual differences so slight as to be quite inappreciable by an uneducated eye.
Hence I look at individual differences, though of small interest to the systematist, as of high importance for us, as being the first step towards such slight varieties as are barely thought worth recording in works on natural history.
On the other side the interest in individual differences and in applied psychology has steadily grown, and through it an understanding for the real meaning of the tests has been gained.
THE END NOTES [1] The fullest account of the modern studies on individual differences is to be found in: William Stern: Die differentielle Psychologie in ihren methodischen Grundlagen.
Wells: The Relation of Practice to Individual Differences.
Individual differences exist, education cannot eliminate them, they are innate, due to original nature.
Because of these two serious errors in the investigations our knowledge of the influence of maturity as a cause of individual differences is no better than opinion.
If individual differences in achievement are due largely to lack of training or to poor training, then to give the same amount and kind of training to all the individuals in a group should reduce the differences.
The teacher will find in the author's Examination of School Children a series of group tests with norms which can be used for a further study of individual differences.
Individual differences in human capacity make necessary a treatment of the different types and grades of intelligence, and the compilation of tests for determining these differences.
Since different kinds of work demand, in some cases, different kinds of ability, the psychology of individual differences can be of service in selecting people for special kinds of work.
Psychology now generally recognizes the existence of what the general school procedure implies does not exist, namely, the wide range of individual differences.
For the sake of argument, I have assumed the existence of a first generation, of which the individuals were already characterised by individual differences.
Thus sexual reproduction is to be explained as an arrangement which ensures an ever-varying supply of individual differences.
Hence the transformation of a species can only take place by the smallest steps, and must depend upon the accumulation of those differences which characterise individuals, or, as we call them, ‘individual differences.
Cross-breeding between all individuals is impossible, and hence the obliteration of individual differences is also impossible.
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