Experimental Psychology category: 380 books
Philosophic Foundations of Genetic Psychology and Gestalt Psychology
A Comparative Study of the Empirical Basis, Theoretical Structure, and Epistemological Groundwork of European Biological Psychology
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
XVI Psychologists have, however, shown that what we are primarily aware of is not a succession of sense-data but figures-ground phenomena: Wittgenstein's ambiguous duck-rabbit is merely one such example. They have also drawn our attention to the existence of tertiary qualities in perception, such...
by Jaan Valsiner
Language: English
Release Date: July 18, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: July 18, 2017
This Brief aims to provide a theoretically innovative introduction to the methodology of the human sciences. It presents a new version of methodology, as a system of mutually linked acts of creating knowledge where both abstract and concrete features of research are intricately intertwined. It shows...
Anomalistic Psychology
A Study of Magical Thinking
Language: English
Release Date: January 14, 2014
Updating and expanding the materials from the first edition, Anomalistic Psychology, Second Edition integrates and systematically treats phenomena of human consciousness and behaviors that appear to violate the laws of nature. The authors present and detail a new explanatory concept they developed...
by Philip Banyard, Cara Flanagan
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2006
How do we know right from wrong, good from bad, help from hindrance, and how can we judge the behavior of others?
Ethics are the rules and guidelines that we use to make such judgements. Often there are no clear answers, which make this subject both interesting and potentially frustrating....
The Psychology of Imagination
History, Theory and New Research Horizons
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2017
This book offers a new approach to imagination which brings its emotional, social, cultural, contextual and existential characteristics to the fore. Fantasy and imagination are understood as the human capacity to distance oneself from the here?and?now situation in order to return to it with new possibilities....
Experiments With People
Revelations From Social Psychology, 2nd Edition
Language: English
Release Date: August 29, 2017
This book showcases 28 intriguing social psychological experiments that have significantly advanced our understanding of human social thinking and behavior. Each chapter focuses on the details and implications of a single study, while citing related research and real-life examples along the...
The Lucifer Effect
Understanding How Good People Turn Evil
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2007
The definitive firsthand account of the groundbreaking research of Philip Zimbardo—the basis for the award-winning film The Stanford Prison Experiment
Renowned social psychologist and creator of the Stanford Prison Experiment Philip Zimbardo explores the mechanisms that make good people do...
by Perry Ritthaler
Language: English
Release Date: February 3, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: February 3, 2013
The objective of this e-book is to share information theory that was emailed to the Aljazeera network in Palestine and the Western government offices in Canada and the USA and Great Britain. The articles explore political corruption and how that corruption can play a role in destroying a super power;...
A Psychology of Food
More Than a Matter of Taste
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Writing this book has been a pleasure, but it has also been frustrating. It was a delight to see that the facts of food preferences, eating, and food behavior conform in many ways to the general principles of psychology. Matching these, however, was often like putting together a jigsaw puz zle-looking...
by Perry Ritthaler
Language: English
Release Date: March 4, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: March 4, 2013
Education is the most powerful weapon to change the world.Soldiers in the military, freedom fighters and civilians on the battlefield benefit by reading documented cyber-war zone operations described in this handbook.The objective of this e-book is to try and stop the war or terrorism by covertly providing...
Psych Experiments
From Pavlov's dogs to Rorschach's inkblots, put psychology's most fascinating studies to the test
Language: English
Release Date: December 2, 2016
Psychology's most famous theories--played out in real life!
Forget the labs and lecture halls. You can conduct your very own psych experiments at home!
Famous psychological experiments--from Freud's ego to the Skinner box--have changed the way science views human behavior. But how do...
by Charles R. Gallistel, John Gibbon
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2002
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2002
The goal of this book is to persuade students of animal learning that cognitive theorizing is essential for an understanding of the phenomena revealed by conditioning experiments. The authors also hope to persuade the cognitive psychology community that conditioning phenomena offer such a strong empirical...
Pavlovian Second-Order Conditioning (Psychology Revivals)
Studies in Associative Learning
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2014
Originally published in 1980, this volume explores some of the dramatic and exciting changes that had taken place in the field of conditioning in the 15 years prior to publication. The usefulness of a particular learning procedure, second-order conditioning, is explored in three aspects of the learning...
Studies in Perception and Action XIII
Eighteenth International Conference on Perception and Action
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2015
Since 1991, the edited book series Studies in Perception and Action has appeared in conjunction with the biennial International Conference of Perception and Action (ICPA). ICPA provides a forum for researchers and academics who share a common interest in ecological psychology to come together, present...