A History of Psychology
A History of Psychology

Author: Eric Shiraev

Publisher: SAGE Publications

Published: 2014-02-04

Total Pages: 520

ISBN-13: 1483323951

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Offering a fresh, accessible, and global approach to the history of psychology, the fully revised Second Edition of Eric B. Shiraev’s A History of Psychology: A Global Perspective, provides a thorough view of psychology’s progressive and evolving role in society and how its interaction with culture has developed throughout history, from ancient times through the Middle Ages and the modern period to the current millennium. Taking an inclusive approach, the text addresses contemporary and classic themes and theories with discussion of psychology′s development in cultures and countries all too often neglected in overviews of the field. High-interest topics, including the validity of psychological knowledge and volunteerism, offer readers the opportunity to apply the history of psychology to their own lives.

The Human Subject in the Psychological Laboratory
The Human Subject in the Psychological Laboratory

Author: I. Silverman

Publisher: Elsevier

Published: 2013-10-22

Total Pages: 165

ISBN-13: 148328543X

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Written for anyone who does or plans to do behavioral research, this book is based on the thesis that the psychological laboratory is a special place for people brought there as subjects. Accordingly, subjects act in ways that bear little relationship to their behaviours in the life situations to which psychologists seek to generalize their findings. An analysis is given of the motives, feelings and intentions common to people who assume the role of psychological subjects. The ways in which their responses confound data and lead to spurious conclusions are described

A History of Modern Psychology
A History of Modern Psychology

Author: Duane Schultz

Publisher: Academic Press

Published: 2013-10-02

Total Pages: 433

ISBN-13: 1483257940

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A History of Modern Psychology, 3rd Edition discusses the development and decline of schools of thought in modern psychology. The book presents the continuing refinement of the tools, techniques, and methods of psychology in order to achieve increased precision and objectivity. Chapters focus on relevant topics such as the role of history in understanding the diversity and divisiveness of contemporary psychology; the impact of physics on the cognitive revolution and humanistic psychology; the influence of mechanism on Descartes's thinking; and the evolution of the third force, humanistic psychology. Undergraduate students of psychology and related fields will find the book invaluable in their pursuit of knowledge.

Wilhelm Wundt and the Making of a Scientific Psychology
Wilhelm Wundt and the Making of a Scientific Psychology

Author: Robert Rieber

Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media

Published: 2013-11-11

Total Pages: 251

ISBN-13: 1468483404

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The creation of this book stems largely from the current centennial cele bration of the founding in Leipzig of Wundt's psychological laboratory. Wundt is acknowledged by many as one of the principal founders of experimental psychology. His laboratory, his journal, and his students were all influential in the transmission of the new psychology from Germany to all parts of the world. Nevertheless, until recently, psychol ogists and historians of science hardly recognized the scope and breadth of Wundt's influence, not to mention his contributions.! It was first through E. B. Titchener, and then through Titchener's student, E. G. Boring, that psychology got to know the somewhat biased and distorted picture of this great German psychologist. The picture painted by Titch ener and Boring was unquestionably the way they saw him, and the way they wished to use him as a part of the scientific psychological Zeitgeist of their time.

Close Relationships
Close Relationships

Author: Harry T. Reis

Publisher: Psychology Press

Published: 2004-08-02

Total Pages: 540

ISBN-13: 1135471320

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Each of the chapters in this reader is written by leading scholars in the area of relationships, reflecting the diversity of the field and including both contemporary and key historical papers for comprehensive coverage of research.

A Brief History of Psychology
A Brief History of Psychology

Author: Michael Wertheimer

Publisher: Psychology Press

Published: 2012

Total Pages: 328

ISBN-13: 1848728743

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This edition approaches psychology as a discipline with antecedents in philosophical speculation and early scientific experimentation. It covers these early developments, 19th-century German experimental psychology and empirical psychology in tradition of William James, the 20th century dubbed "the age of schools" and dominated by psychoanalysis, behavioralism, structuralism, and Gestalt psychology, as well as the return to empirical methods and active models of human agency. Finally it evaluates psychology in the new millennium and developments in terms of women in psychology, industrial psychology and social justice