Inside psychology : a science over 50 years / edited by Pat Rabbitt.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Rabbitt, Patrick.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Psychology.

Medical Subjects:

Psychology.

Physical Description:

x, 298 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2009.

Summary:

Psychology is a comparatively young science. From its origins in the psychophysics laboratories of late nineteenth century Germany, it made great strides throughout the twentieth century, and can now be considered one of the most rapidly growing of the sciences, as evidenced by its enormous popularity at both undergraduate 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 fifty years, covering neuropsychology, social psychology, experimental psychology, perception, physiology, and many other subjects. 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 twenty-first century, and where it might be heading in the coming years.

Highly accessible, this 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.

Contents:

Introduction / Pat Rabbitt

The ups and downs of cognitive psychology : attention and other 'executive functions' / Alan Allport

Psychology in the 1950s : a personal view / Alan Baddeley

Learning theory and the cognitive revolution, 1961-1971 : a personal perspective / Robert A. Boakes

Face recognition in our time / Vicki Bruce

Cognitive science now and then / Max Coltheart

Aging memory : aging memories / Fergus I.M. Craik

Psycholinguistics in our time / Anne Cutler

Two brains : my life in science / Michael S. Gazzaniga

A perception of perception / Richard L. Gregory

Social psychology in our time : from 'fun and games' to grown-up science / Miles Hewstone and Wolfgang Stroebe

Thirty years of object recognition / Glyn W. Humphreys

Reasoning / Phil Johnson-Laird

Weber's law / Donald Laming

Fifty years of neuropsychological memory research : the score : methods 5, theory 2 / Andrew Mayes

Mental chronometry : long past, bright future / Michael I. Posner

A life in grey areas : cognitive gerontology from 1957 to 2007 / Pat Rabbitt

From little slips to big disasters : an error quest / Jim Reason

Visual perception 1950-2000 / John Ross

Human performance : from then to now / Andries F. Sanders

The perception of time / John Wearden

From effects to systems in neuropsychology / Lawrence Weiskrantz

Experimental psychopathology and psychological treatment / J. Mark G. Williams.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780199228768

0199228760

OCLC:

233546047