N Hall psychologist biography

Stanley Grenville Hall in GG. Fechner and V. Hopkins, Baltimore, where he was founded in the year one of the first in the United States of the laboratories of experimental psychology. In the year, the first American psychological magazine "American Journal of Psychology" "Amencan Journal of Psychology", in the year - "Pedagogical and Journal of Genetic Psychology" "Pedagogical Semair and Journal of Genetic Psychology", in the year - "Journal of Applied Psychology" "Journal of Applied Psychology".

One of the organizers and the first president of the American Psychological Association. The main works of XOLLA belong to the field of child and pedagogical psychology, he called it genetic. To study the children's psyche, he widespread questionnaires. Children, responding to them, had to report their feelings in particular, moral and religious, about the attitude to other people, about early memories, etc.

On this basis, Xol wrote a number of works, among which the most famous is the “youth” “Adolescent”, the first monograph on the psychology of early youth, met criticism, so on. Subsequently, the method of questionnaires was replaced by the test method. In the explanation of the mental development of the child, the Xol relied on the biogenetic law, on the basis of which the principle of renovation of the axis of the stages of development of the human race was introduced into childhood and pedagogical psychology.

The formation of the children's psyche was interpreted as a fatal transition from one phase of the development of the human race to another.

The nature of children's games, for example, was explained as the manifestation and “outbursts” of hunting instincts of primitive people, and the games of adolescents were considered a reproduction of the lifestyle of the military army. This followed the conclusions that children need to provide an opportunity to go through the animistic, religious and other stages of their development.

Education must lead the child through all these periods. Hall was one of the first to study the problems of senile psychology. Source: Russian Pedagogical Encyclopedia: in 2 tt. Proceedings: Hall, Granville Stanley. Adolescent: Its Psychology and Its Relations to Physiology, Anthropology, Sociology, Sex, Crime, Relygion and Education. Hall, Granville Stanley. Educational Problems.

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