Inside Psychology: A science over 50 years - Brossura

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ISBN 10: 0199228760 ISBN 13: 9780199228768

Casa editrice: Oxford University Press, USA, 2009

Riassunto

Psychology is a comparatively young science. From its origins in the psychophysics laboratories of late 19th century Germany, it made great strides throughout the 20th century, and can now be considered one of the most rapidly growing of the sciences, as evidenced by the enormous growth at both undergraduate level and research level. This book takes a step back to consider just how we got to where we are in psychology. It brings together some of the leading and most influential figures from the past 50 years, covering neuropsychology, social psychology, experimental psychology, perception, physiology and many others. Each contributor considers the path their own field has taken - both the advances, and the set-backs. They look at how their area has changed - how it might have been 'in vogue' one day, and out of fashion the next. The accounts are personal, witty, and provide a much needed stock-take of just where psychology stands at the start of the 21st century, and where it might be heading in the coming years. Highly accessible, the book will make fascinating reading for anyone at all interested in psychology and its history- from students upwards, as well as those more broadly interested in the study of the mind.

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Contenuti

• Patrick Rabbitt: Introduction
• 1: Alan Allport: The ups and downs of cognitive psychology: attention and other 'executive functions'
• 2: Alan Baddeley: Psychology in the 1950s: a personal view
• 3: Robert A Boakes: Learning theory and the cognitive revolution 1961-1971
• 4: Vicki Bruce: Face recognition in our time
• 5: Max Coltheart: Cognitive science now and then
• 6: Fergus Craik: Aging memory - aging memories
• 7: Anne Cutler: Psycholinguistics in our time
• 8: Michael S Gazzaniga: Two brains; my life in science
• 9: Richard Gregory: A perception of perception
• 10: Miles Hewstone & Wolfgang Stroebe: Social psychology in our time: from 'fun and games' to grown-up science
• 11: Glyn W Humphreys: Thirty years of object recognition
• 12: Phil Johnson-Laird: Reasoning
• 13: Donald Laming: Weber's Law
• 14: Andrew Mayes: Fifty years of memory neuropsychology research: methods 5, theory 2
• 15: Michael Posner: Mental chronometry: long past, bright future
• 16: Patrick Rabbitt: A life in grey areas: cognitive gerontology from 1950 to 2007
• 17: James Reason: From little slips to big disasters: an error quest
• 18: John Ross: Visual perception 1950 - 2000
• 19: Andries Sanders: Human performance from then to now
• 20: John Wearden: The perception of time
• 21: Lawrence Weiskrantz: From effects to systems in neuropsychology
• 22: Mark G Williams: Experimental psychopathology and psychological treatment

Dettagli dell'edizione

• Editore: Oxford University Press, USA
• Data di pubblicazione: 2009
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 0199228760
• ISBN 13: 9780199228768
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 308
• Redattore: Rabbitt Pat
• Contatto del produttore: Messaggerie Libri; ufficio.anagrafiche@meli.it; ; Via Verdi, 8.; Assago Milano; 20090; Italia