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Forty Studies that Changed Psychology Explorations into the History of Psychological Research

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ISBN-10: 0131147293

ISBN-13: 9780131147294

Edition: 5th 2005

Authors: Roger R. Hock

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For courses in Introductory Psychology, History and Systems in Psychology, and Research Methods. This unique book closes the gap between psychology textbooks and the research that made them possible by offering a first hand glimpse into 40 of the most famous studies in the history of the field, and subsequent studies that expanded upon each study's influence. Readers are able to grasp the process and excitement of scientific discovery as they experience an insider's look at the studies that continue today to be cited most frequently, stirred up the most controversy when they were first published, sparked the most subsequent related research, opened new fields of psychological exploration,…    
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Book details

List price: $43.80
Edition: 5th
Copyright year: 2005
Publisher: Prentice Hall PTR
Publication date: 6/29/2004
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 336
Size: 6.25" wide x 9.25" long x 0.25" tall
Weight: 0.880
Language: English

Roger R. Hock is Professor of Psychology at Mendocino College in California and the author of Forty Studies that Changed Psychology: Explorations into the History of Psychological Research.

Biology and Human Behavior
One Brain or Two
The split brain in man. More Experience = Bigger Brain?
Brain changes in response to experience. Are You a Natural?
Sources of human psychological difference: The Minnesota study of twins raised apart. Watch Out for the Visual Cliff!
The "visual cliff"
Perception and Consciousness
What You See Is What You've Learned
Some observations regarding the experience and behavior of the BaMuti Pygmies To Sleep, No Doubt to Dream...
Regularly occurring periods of eye mobility and concomitant phenomena during sleep
The effect of dream deprivation. Unromancing the Dream...
The brain as a dream-state generator: An activation-synthesis hypothesis of the dream process. Acting as if You Are Hypnotized
Hypnotic behavior: A cognitive, social, psychological perspective
Learning and Conditioning
It's Not Just about Salivating Dogs!
Conditioned reflexes
Little Emotional Albert
Conditioned emotional responses
Knock Wood
Superstition in the pigeon
See Aggression...Do Aggression!
Transmission of aggression through imitation of aggressive models
Intelligence, Cognition, and Memory
What You Expect Is What You Get
Teacher's expectancies: Determinates of pupils' IQ gains. Just How are You Intelligent?
Frames of mind: The theory of multiple intelligences. Maps in Your Mind
Cognitive maps in rats and men
Thanks for the Memories
Leading questions and the eyewitness report
Human Development
Discovering Love
The nature of love. Out of Sight, but Not Out of Mind
The construction of reality in the child: The development of object concept. How Moral are You?
The development of children's orientations toward a moral order: Sequence in the development of moral thought
In Control and Glad of It!
The effects of choice and enhanced responsibility for the aged: A field experiment in an institutional setting
Emotion and Motivation
A Sexual Motivation...
Human sexual response. I Can See It All Over Your Face!<c>P. Ekman</c><f>Ekman, P.</f><c>V.W. Friesen, (1971)12</c><f>(1971)12, V.W. Friesen,</f>