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Revisiting the Classic Studies is a series of texts that introduces readers to the studies in psychology that changed the way we think about core topics in the discipline today. It provokes students to ask more interesting and challenging questions about the field by encouraging a deeper level of engagement both with the details of the studies themselves and with the nature of their contribution. Edited by leading scholars in their field and written by researchers at the cutting edge of these developments, the chapters in each text provide details of the original works and their theoretical and empirical impact, and then discuss the ways in which thinking and research has advanced in the years since the studies were conducted. Brain and Behaviour: Revisiting the Classic Studies traces 17 ground-breaking studies by researchers such as Gage, Luria, Sperry, and Tulving to re-examine and reflect on their findings and engage in a lively discussion of the subsequent work that they have inspired. Suitable for students on neuropsychology courses at all levels, as well as anyone with an enquiring mind.
Revisiting Harry Harlow: Love in infant monkeys
Revisiting Harry Harlow: Love in infant monkeys
John B. Watson, the founder of the psychological school of Behaviorism in 1913, wanted to make psychology a purely objective part of natural science in which the goal was to predict and control behavior. For Watson the emphasis was on the observation of external behavior of people and other animals and not on inferred internal mental states. Although Behaviorism is no longer a major school of psychology, Watson had a major impact on the field and became one of the most influential psychologists of the twentieth century.
In 1928 he published a book, Psychological Care of Infant and Child, which became ...
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