Experimental psychology : an introduction / Benton J. Underwood.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Underwood, Benton J., 1915-1994, author.

Series:

Century psychology series.

Century psychology series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Psychology, Experimental--Methodology.

Psychology, Experimental.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (vii, 638 pages) : illustrations.

Place of Publication:

New York : Appleton-Century-Crofts, 1949.

Summary:

In 1946 I was faced with the problem of teaching a course in undergraduate experimental psychology with no available text seeming suitable for background reading. Therefore, I started to bring together certain materials to be mimeographed and issued to the students as a substitute for a text. These materials were revised and expanded from quarter to quarter until the present final draft was written. While I set up the objective of continuous unification of method and content, I must add quickly that I was unable to attain the objective completely. In mimeographed form the text has been used in a two-quarter course for which Elementary Statistics was a prerequisite, and in a year course where statistics was taught as an integral part of the methodology. I believe that the factual subject matter can be comprehended readily without a statistical knowledge, but a full appreciation of experimental design problems requires some statistical thinking.

Contents:

Introduction

Discriminal Processes: Methods of Study I

Discriminal Processes: Methods of Study II

Discriminal Processes: Methods of Study III

Discriminal Processes: The Influence of General Variables

Motivation

Frustration

Conflict

Transfer of Training

Design Methods III and IV

Learning I: Conditioning

Learning II: Multiple-Response Learning

Learning III: Thinking

Learning IV: Theoretical Problems

Forgetting-Retention

Work.

Notes:

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