This book presents, in more depth than textbook treatment permits, the background, conduct, and implications of a selection of classic experiments in psychology.
Introductory
About Experiments
A Brief History of Experimental Psychology
Psychobiology
Herman von Helmholtz and the Nerve Impulse
Paul Broca and the Speech Center
Karl Lashley: Brain Mechanisms and Learning
James Olds: Reward Systems in the Brain
Vincent Dethier: Feeding in a Fly
S. P. Grossman: Chemical Coding in the Brain
Roger Sperry and the Bisected Brain
Motivation and Emotion
Neal Miller: Fear as a Learnable Drive
Neal Miller: Conflict
David McClelland on Achievement Motivation
Harry Harlow: A Tale of Two Mothers
Nikolaas Tinbergen: The Study of Instinct
Teitelbaum and Epstein: Hunger, Thirst, and the Brain
Schachter and Singer: Cognition and Emotion
Herman and Polivy: Human Hunger and Cognition
Walter Mischel and Self Control
Learning
Edward Thorndike and the Law of Effect
Ivan Pavlov and Classical Conditioning
Wolfgang Kohler and the Mentality of Apes
Edward Tolman and Cognitive Maps
B. F. Skinner and Operant Conditioning
John Garcia: Conditioned Taste Aversion
Albert Bandura: Imitation and Social Learning
Gordon Paul: Learning Theory in the Clinic
Martin Seligman: Learned Helplessness
Lepper et al.: The Costs of Reward
Memory
Hermann Ebbinghaus on Memory
Frederic Bartlett: Meaning and Memory
Brenda Milner and the Case of H. M.
Lloyd and Margaret Peterson: Short-term Forgetting
Elizabeth Loftus: Leading Questions and False Memories
Gordon Bower on State-dependent Memory
Collins and Quillian: The Structure of Semantic Memory
Cognition
F. C. Donders and Reaction Time
The Cautionary Tale of Clever Hans
A. S. Luchins: On Not Being Mindless
George Miller on the Magic Number 7
Festinger and Carlsmith: Cognitive Dissonance
Roger Shepard and Mental Rotation
Richard Herrnstein: Concepts in Pigeons
Tversky and Kahneman: The Framing of Decisions
Perception
Ernst Weber: The Muscle Sense and Weber's Law
Gustav Fechner and the Measurement of Mind
Max Wertheimer on Apparent Movement
Selig Hecht and Adaptation to the Dark H. K. Hartline: Lateral
Inhibition in the Retina
Georg von Bekesy: The Mechanics of Hearing
Jerome Bruner: Motivation and Perception
Gibson and Walk: The Visual Cliff
Lettvin et al.: What the Frog's Eye Tells the Frog's Brain
Social Psychology
Theodore Newcomb: Attitude Change at College
Muzafer Sherif: Prejudice and the Robbers' Cave
Kurt Lewin: Tensions in the Life Space
Solomon Asch on Conformity
Festinger et al.: When Prophesy Fails
Stanley Milgram on Obedience to Authority
Latane and Darley: The Unresponsive Bystander
Benjamin Franklin: Mesmer and Animal Magnetism
DOUGLAS MOOK is Professor Emeritus of Psychology at the University of Virginia.
"Fifty-eight classic experiments of psychology--at least as the
field is viewed by the author--are described in this volume. The
choice of experiments is excellent....[T]his book would be an
excellent companion to a standard textbook in courses in the
history of psychology."-SB&F
"In this fascinating book, Mook offers not classic papers in
psychology but rather 60 short chapters, each five pages or so in
length. In each chapter, he reviews a classic study in
psychology....[t]his readable book will serve as a very useful
resource for informing students about the original and powerful
experiments that established the methodology and theory of
contemporary psychological science. Essential. Lower- and
upper-division undergraduates."-Choice
?[P]rovides an in-depth, college-level approach to psychological
experiments and their implications. Classic depth, college-level
approach to psychological experiments and their implications.
Classic experiments are outlined, with different areas of study
receiving focus on both pitfalls and positives. Excellent--even
required--supplemental reading for any serious-level
researcher.?-MBR Bookwatch
?Fifty-eight classic experiments of psychology--at least as the
field is viewed by the author--are described in this volume. The
choice of experiments is excellent....[T]his book would be an
excellent companion to a standard textbook in courses in the
history of psychology.?-SB&F
?In this fascinating book, Mook offers not classic papers in
psychology but rather 60 short chapters, each five pages or so in
length. In each chapter, he reviews a classic study in
psychology....[t]his readable book will serve as a very useful
resource for informing students about the original and powerful
experiments that established the methodology and theory of
contemporary psychological science. Essential. Lower- and
upper-division undergraduates.?-Choice
"ÝP¨rovides an in-depth, college-level approach to psychological
experiments and their implications. Classic depth, college-level
approach to psychological experiments and their implications.
Classic experiments are outlined, with different areas of study
receiving focus on both pitfalls and positives. Excellent--even
required--supplemental reading for any serious-level
researcher."-MBR Bookwatch
"[P]rovides an in-depth, college-level approach to psychological
experiments and their implications. Classic depth, college-level
approach to psychological experiments and their implications.
Classic experiments are outlined, with different areas of study
receiving focus on both pitfalls and positives. Excellent--even
required--supplemental reading for any serious-level
researcher."-MBR Bookwatch
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