Current trends in the description and analysis of behavior / Robert Glaser.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Glaser, Robert, author.

Series:

Current trends in psychology series.

Current trends in psychology series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Psychology, Experimental.

Human behavior.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (242 pages) : illustrations.

Place of Publication:

Pittsburgh : University of Pittsburgh Press, 1958.

Summary:

"Each year since 1947 the University of Pittsburgh has sponsored a conference dealing with current advances and probable future developments in an active area of psychology. This year the departmental committee was interested in the general problem of measurement since there is the continuous need for the development of methods to quantify the stubborn and elusive phenomena of behavior. The title selected was "The Description and Analysis of Behavior." Most of the papers in the present volume deal with this topic although the invited speakers were free to suggest their individual titles. A few of the topics touched on include: task-oriented groups, psychopathology, psychophysiology, human behavior, social psychology, psycholinguistics, and psychotherapy"--Preface.

Contents:

Preface / Robert A. Patton

Descriptive variables for the study of task-oriented groups / Robert Glaser

A biometric model for psychopathology / Joseph Zubin

Psychophysiology and perception / Donald B. Lindsley

On the use of drugs in the analysis of complex human behavior with emphasis on the study of mood / Vincent Nowlis

The mediation hypothesis in the analysis and description of behavior / Charles N. Cofer

Interaction between methods and models in social psychology / Harold Guetzkow

Process and content in psycholinguistics / John B. Carroll

Scientific methodology in the area of psychotherapy / Roy M. Hamlin

Guilt, shame, and other reactive motives / Thomas M. French, M.D.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.