ON PSYCHOLOGY
FREE PUBLIC LECTURES PROFESSOR FITTS SERIES Continuing its course of free public lectures, the Auckland University College announces a new series on “Modern Trends in Psychology.” to bo started on Tuesday evening. Professor A. B. Fitt will i peak on interesting subjects which have been given much prominence of recent years. His first lecture will be entitled “Animal and Abnormal Psychology.” He will discuss the anthropoids at Yalo University, the rats and rabbits at Colombia, and will follow on to studies of the mentally afflicted. The work of the abnormal clinic and tlv psycho-biology clinic at Harvard will be described. In the second lecture the professor will deal with “child psychology.” showing the methods of measuring character, emotion and temperament by psychological standards. The growing dissatisfaction with the general intelligence will form one of the heads of the address.
On the third night the professor will give experimental demonstrations with apparatus, showing the expression of feelings and emotions, the speed of reaction, and the studies of fatigue and memory.
The addresses will be given in the College Hall.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 400, 14 July 1928, Page 13
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