| Description |
xiii, 322 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm |
| Contents |
1. Biology and Human Behavior. One Brain or Two? The split brain in man / M. S. Gazzaniga. More Experience = Bigger Brain? Brain changes in response to experience / M. R. Rosenzweig, E. L. Bennett and M. C. Diamond. What you See is What You've Learned. Some observations regarding the experiences and behavior of the BaMbuti Pygmies / C. M. Turnbull. Watch Out for the Visual Cliff! The "visual cliff" / E. J. Gibson and R. D. Walk -- 2. Consciousness. To Sleep, No Doubt to Dream ... Regularly occurring periods of eye mobility and concomitant phenomena during sleep / E. Aserinsky and N. Kleitman. The effect of dream deprivation / W. Dement. When You Wish Upon a Dream ... The influence of a conscious wish on dreams / R. D. Cartwright. Unromancing the Dream ... The brain as a dream-state generator: An activation-synthesis hypothesis of the dream process / J. A. Hobson and R. W. McCarley. Acting as if you are Hypnotized. Hypnotic behavior: A cognitive, social, psychological perspective / N. P. Spanos -- 3. Learning and Conditioning. It's Not Just about Salivating Dogs! / I. P. Pavlov. Little Emotional Albert. Conditioned emotional responses / J. B. Watson and R. Rayner. Knock Wood! Superstition in the pigeon / B. F. Skinner. See Aggression ... Do Aggression! Transmission of aggression through imitation of aggressive models / A. Bandura, D. Ross and S. A. Ross -- 4. Intelligence, Cognition, and Memory. What you Expect is What you Get. Teachers' expectancies: Determinates of pupils' I.Q. gains / R. Rosenthal and L. Jacobson. Making a Good Impression. Forming impressions of personality / S. E. Asch. Maps in your Mind. Cognitive maps in rats and men / E. C. Tolman. Thanks for the Memories! Leading questions and the eyewitness report / E. F. Loftus -- 5. Human Development. Discovering Love. The nature of love / H. F. Harlow. Out of Sight, But Not Out of Mind / J. Piaget. Born First, Born Smarter? Birth order and intellectual development / R. B. Zajonc and G. B. Markus. In Control and Glad of it! The effects of choice and enhanced personal responsibility for the aged: A field experiment in an institutional setting / E. J. Langer and J. Rodin -- 6. Emotion and Motivation. A Sexual Motivation ... / W. H. Masters and V. E. Johnson. I Can See it All Over Your Face! Constants across cultures in the face and emotion / P. Ekman and W. V. Friesen. Life, Change, and Stress. The social readjustment rating scale / T. H. Holmes and R. H. Rahe. Thoughts Out of Tune. Cognitive consequences of forced compliance / L. Festinger and J. M. Carlsmith -- 7. Personality. Are you the Master of your Fate! Generalized expectancies for internal vs. external control of reinforcement / J. B. Rotter. How Moral are you? The development of children's orientations toward a moral order: Sequence in the development of moral thought / L. Kohlberg. Learning to be Depressed. Failure to escape traumatic shock / M. E. P. Seligman and S. F. Maier. Racing Against your Heart. Association of specific overt behavior pattern with blood and cardiovascular findings / M. Friedman and R. H. Rosenman -- 8. Psychopathology. Who's Crazy Here, Anyway? On being sane in insane places / D. L. Rosenhan. You're Getting Defensive Again! / A. Freud. Projections of Who you are / H. Rorschach. Crowding Into the Behavioral Sink. Population density and social pathology / J. B. Calhoun -- 9. Psychotherapy. Choosing your Psychotherapist. Meta-analysis of psychotherapy outcome studies / M. L. Smith and G. V. Glass. Relaxing your Fears Away. The systematic desensitization treatment of neuroses / J. Wolpe. Picture this! / H. A. Murray. A Chemical Calm. Effects of diazepam on phobic avoidance behavior and phobic anxiety / W. E. Whitehead, B. Blackwell and A. Robinson -- 10. Social Psychology. Not Practicing What you Preach. Attitudes and actions / R. T. LaPiere. The Power of Conformity. Opinions and social pressure / S. E. Asch. To Help or Not to Help. Bystander intervention in emergencies: Diffusion of responsibility / J. M. Darley and B. Latane. Obey at any Cost. Behavioral study of obedience / S. Milgram |
| Summary |
Roger R. Hock, professor of Psychology at New England College, recounts and illuminates forty of the most elegant and influential studies that have shaped our understanding of human behavior during psychology's brief past. Each study chosen for this book is presented in a meaningful and accessible style within a consistent format that includes: a brief introduction and overview of historical events leading up to the study, the theory and hypotheses underlying the research, a description of the design and methods used to carry out the research, a clear, understandable summary of the study's significance to the field of psychology and to a wider understanding of human behavior, a discussion of subsequent related research launched by the study as well as criticisms of the research, a brief demonstration of the study's on-going influence through a sampling of current studies that have incorporated the original research, and a list of references for further reading |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and indexes |
| Subject |
Psychology -- History -- 20th century.
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| LC no. |
98011270 |
| ISBN |
0139227253 (paperback) |
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