| Description |
x, 298 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| 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 |
| Summary |
"This book takes a step back to consider just how we got to where we are in psychology. It brings together some of the leading and most influential figures from the past fifty years, covering neuropsychology, social psychology, experimental psychology, perception, physiology, and many other subjects. Each contributor considers the path their own field has taken - both the advances, and the set-backs. They look at how their area has changed - how it might have been 'in vogue' one day, and out of fashion the next. The accounts are personal, witty, and provide a much needed stock-take of just where psychology stands at the start of the twenty-first century, and where it might be heading in the coming years." "Highly accessible, this book will make fascinating reading for anyone at all interested in psychology and its history - from students upwards, as well as those more broadly interested in the study of the mind."--BOOK JACKET |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Subject |
Psychology.
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| Author |
Rabbitt, Patrick.
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| LC no. |
2008036479 |
| ISBN |
9780199228768 |
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0199228760 |
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