Our minds, our selves : a brief history of psychology / Keith Oatley.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Oatley, Keith, Author.

Series:

Gale eBooks

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Psychology--History.

Psychology.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xii, 362 pages) : illustrations, portraits

Place of Publication:

Princeton, New Jersey : Princeton University Press, [2018]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

An original history of psychology told through the stories of its most important breakthroughs and the people who made themAdvances in psychology have revolutionized our understanding of the human mind. Imaging technology allows researchers to monitor brain activity, letting us see what happens when we perceive, think, and feel. But technology is only part of how ideas about the mind and brain have developed over the past century and a half. In Our Minds, Our Selves, distinguished psychologist and writer Keith Oatley provides an engaging, original, and authoritative history of modern psychology told through the stories of its most important breakthroughs and the men and women who made them. Our Minds, Our Selves traverses a fascinating terrain: forms of conscious and unconscious knowledge; brain physiology; emotion; stages of mental development from infancy to adulthood; language acquisition and use; the nature of memory; mental illness; morality; free will; creativity; the mind at work in art and literature; and, most important, our ability to cooperate with one another. Controversial experiments--such as Stanley Milgram's investigation of our willingness to obey authority and inflict pain and Philip Zimbardo and his colleagues' study of behavior in a simulated prison-are covered in detail. Biographical sketches illuminate the thinkers behind key insights and turning points: historical figures such as Hermann Helmholtz, Charles Darwin, Sigmund Freud, Jean Piaget, B. F. Skinner, and Alan Turing; leading contemporaries such as Geoffrey Hinton, Michael Tomasello, and Tania Singer; and influential people from other fields, including Margaret Mead, Noam Chomsky, Jane Goodall, and Gabrielle Starr. Enhancing our understanding of ourselves and others, psychology holds the potential to create a better world. Our Minds, Our Selves tells the story of this most important of sciences in a new and appealing way.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Acknowledgments

Prologue

Part One. Significant Ideas

1. Conscious and Unconscious

2. The Sad Case of Phineas Gage

3. Understanding Our ancestors, Understanding Our Emotions

4. Individual Differences and Development

Part Two. Learning, Language, Thinking

5. Stimulus and Response

6. Language

7. Mental Models

8. The Digital World

Part Three. Mind and Brain

9. You Need Your Head Examined

10. Mental Illness, Psychosomatic Illness

11. fMRI and Brain Bases of Experience

12. Feeling within the Self, Feeling for Others

Part Four. Community

13. In Affection and Conflict

14. Cooperation

15. What is it about Love?

16. Culture

Part Five. Common Humanity

17. Imagination, Stories, Empathy

18. Authority and Morality

19. Creativity, Expertise, Grit

20. Consciousness and Free Will

Epilogue

Notes

References

Name index

Subject index

Image credits

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 21. Dez 2019)

ISBN:

9781400890040

1400890047

OCLC:

1023430763