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Originally published as:

L.L. Thurstone. Table of Contents for The Nature of Intelligence. London: Kegan Paul, Trench Trubner & Co., (1924).

Editors' notes

Thurstone's main contribution to the psychology of intelligence was made later in his career, with his work on factor analysis. We have included this book as evidence of his indebtedness to Mead, particularly Mead's reconstruction of Dewey's reflex arc argument.

The Preface acknowledged the work's debt to Mead, downplaying the relationship. Mead's students, however, recognized the extent of Thurstone's borrowing.

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The Nature of Intelligence

L.L. Thurstone

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Preface

1. The Stimulus-Response Fallacy in Psychology

2. The Classification of Behaviour

3. The Mind as Unfinished Conduct

4. Stages of the Reflex Circuit

5. The Principle of Protective Adjustment

6. The Preconscious Phase of the Reflex Circuit

7. Overt and Mental Trial and Error

8. Inhibition and Intelligence

9. Autistic Thinking

10. The Sense Qualities

11. The Function of Ineffective Adjustments

12. A Definition of Intelligence

Summary

Notes

No notes

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