The great ideas of psychology
- نوع فایل : کتاب
- زبان : انگلیسی
- مؤلف : Daniel N Robinson; Teaching Company
- ناشر : Springfield, VA : Teaching Co.
- چاپ و سال / کشور: 1997
- شابک / ISBN : 9781565851856
Description
Defining the subject -- Ancient foundations -- Minds possessed -- Witchery and the search for explanations -- Three enduring "isms"-Empiricism, rationalism, materialism -- Sensation and perception -- The visual process -- Hearing -- Signal-detection theory -- Perceptual constancies and illusions -- Learning and memory -- Pavlov and the conditioned reflex -- Watson and American behaviorism -- B.F.Skinner and modern behaviorism -- B.F.Skinner and the engineering of society -- Language -- The integration of experience -- Perception and attention -- Cognitive "Maps,""Insight," and animal minds -- Memory revisited-Mnemonics and context -- Piaget's stage theory of cognitive development -- The development of moral reasoning -- Knowledge, thinking, and understanding -- Comprehending the world of experience -- Psychobiology, Nineteenth Century foundations -- B.F.Skinner and modern behaviorism -- B.F.Skinner and the engineering of society -- Language -- The integration of experience -- psychology and "The Bell Curve" -- Psychological and biological determinism -- Civic development--Psychology, the person, and the polis. psychosexual development -- Critiques of Freudian theory -- What is "Personality"? -- Obedience and conformity -- Altruism -- Prejudice and self-deception --On being sane in insane places -- Intelligence -- Personality traits and the problem of assessment -- Genetic psychology and "The Bell Curve" -- Psychological and biological determinism -- Civic development.
Professor Daniel N. Robinson, Georgetown University presents forty-eight lectures tracing the development and evolution of psychology, from ancient times to the twentieth century.
