Inside psychology : a science over 50 years / edited by Pat Rabbitt.

Date:
2009
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Publication/Creation

Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2009.

Physical description

x, 298 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Contributors

Contents

Introduction / Pat Rabbitt -- The ups and downs of cognitive psychology : attention and other 'executive functions' / Alan Allport -- Psychology in the 1950s : a personal view / Alan Baddeley -- Learning theory and the cognitive revolution, 1961-1971 : a personal perspective / Robert A. Boakes -- Face recognition in our time / Vicki Bruce -- Cognitive science now and then / Max Coltheart -- Aging memory : aging memories / Fergus I.M. Craik -- Psycholinguistics in our time / Anne Cutler -- Two brains : my life in science / Michael S. Gazzaniga -- A perception of perception / Richard L. Gregory -- Social psychology in our time : from 'fun and games' to grown-up science / Miles Hewstone and Wolfgang Stroebe -- Thirty years of object recognition / Glyn W. Humphreys -- Reasoning / Phil Johnson-Laird -- Weber's law / Donald Laming -- Fifty years of neuropsychological memory research : the score : methods 5, theory 2 / Andrew Mayes -- Mental chronometry : long past, bright future / Michael I. Posner -- A life in grey areas : cognitive gerontology from 1957 to 2007 / Pat Rabbitt -- From little slips to big disasters : an error quest / Jim Reason -- Visual perception 1950-2000 / John Ross -- Human performance : from then to now / Andries F. Sanders -- The perception of time / John Wearden -- From effects to systems in neuropsychology / Lawrence Weiskrantz -- Experimental psychopathology and psychological treatment / J. Mark G. Williams.

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

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    History of Medicine
    PQ.AA9-10
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  • 9780199228768
  • 0199228760