A little history of psychology
In the beginning : the Greeks, Galen and the influence of the east -- Evolving science : ideas about the mind from Descartes to Darwin -- The legend of Phineas Gage : the beginnings of neuropsychology -- Psychophysics and early psychology : measuring mental abilities -- The unconscious mind : Freud...
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New Haven ; London
Yale University Press
2024
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Tag hinzufügen | Zusammenfassung: | In the beginning : the Greeks, Galen and the influence of the east -- Evolving science : ideas about the mind from Descartes to Darwin -- The legend of Phineas Gage : the beginnings of neuropsychology -- Psychophysics and early psychology : measuring mental abilities -- The unconscious mind : Freud and psychoanalysis -- Nativist beliefs : early IQ testing and the emergence of eugenics -- The behaviourist challenge : stimulus-response learning and the challenge to nativism -- Psychology at work : early applied psychology, the Hawthorne studies and the human relations model -- Testing times : the start of the psychometric industry and approaches to personality testing -- Understanding social life : Allport and Wundt, the fathers of social psychology -- The Gestalt School : seeing the whole as different from the sum of its parts -- Two post-Freudians : Carl Jung and the collective unconscious and Adler's individual psychology -- Behaviourism takes hold : little Albert, Operant conditioning and Skinner's brave new world -- The developing mind : Piaget, Gesell and Vygotsky's perspectives on child-rearing -- The missing link : Explaining motivation through needs and drives, and the challenge from Maslow -- The humanist movement : emphasising the whole person -- Psychology goes to war : a turning point - applied psychology and military research -- Explaining Nazism : psychoanalytic and biological explanations for aggression -- Conformity and acquiescence : Asch and Milgram on obedience -- The return of the mind : Miller, Bruner and Neisser - champions of the cognitive approach -- Emotion and stress : Fight or flight, stress and psychoimmunology -- Developing relationships : imprinting, relationship formation and the maternal deprivation debate -- Social learning : group conflict, norms and leadership styles -- Changing attitudes : cognitive dissonance, attitude measurement and theories of prejudice -- Psychology in the Cold War : the Minnesota Starvation Studies and the CIA mind-control experiments -- Challenging psychiatric orthodoxy : criticisms of the medical model and the anti-psychiatry movement -- Social psychology in Europe : the impact of group membership on understanding and behaviour, and the shared construction of meaning -- Global psychology : from Japan and Chinda to Russia, India and South America -- Culture and self : Frantz Fanon and colonial perspectives on identity -- The growth of neuropsychology : neurotransmitters, drugs, sleep deprivation, and the surgical identification of brain structures -- Enter the computer : information-processing models of cognitions, attention and memory -- Understanding perception : theories of how w make sense of what we perceive -- Control and agency : learned helplessness, locus of control and attribution theory -- The social child : re-evaluation Piagetian theory and the socially aware child -- The nature/nurture debate continues : types of intelligence testing and its controversies -- From helplessness to optimism : Seligman and the establishment of positive psychology -- Making decisions : everyday judgements and the use of heuristics - Kahneman's system 1 and system 2 thinking -- Nodes, networks and neuroplasticity : the classic taxi driver study, recovery from Stroke, neural networks and social emotions -- A methodological revolution : deconstructionism and decolonization, challenges to orthodox research methodology and WEIRD sampling In this fascinating history, leading expert Nicky Hayes tells the story of psychology across the centuries and around the world. Hayes introduces key thinkers, including Carl Jung, Anna Freud, Frantz Fanon, and Daniel Kahneman. We see how they tried to expand our understanding, from Pavlov and his dogs to Milgram and his famous electric shock experiments to the CIA's secret mind-control projects. Hayes explores key concepts like child development, the inferiority complex, and PTSD and shows how psychological research has been used for both good and ill |
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| Beschreibung: | Includes index |
| Beschreibung: | viii, 280 Seiten Illustrationen 23 cm |
| ISBN: | 0300269943 0-300-26994-3 9780300269949 978-0-300-26994-9 |