Jared M. Bartels, William E Herman

Revisiting Psychology (eBook, PDF)

A student's guide to critical thought

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

This textbook presents overviews of 12 landmark studies in psychology from diverse areas of research such as consciousness, developmental psychology, learning, memory, social psychology and psychopathology. Through a range of critical thinking exercises and reflective questions, students can evaluate the methodology and impact of these classic studies and quickly hone their analytical and critical thinking skills.

Accessible, clearly-structured and written with undergraduate students in mind, this book will make essential reading for any psychology course.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury eBooks UK
• Seitenzahl: 293
• Erscheinungstermin: 16. November 2018
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781137604309
• Artikelnr.: 62729932

Autorenporträt

Jared M. Bartels is Assistant Professor of Psychology at William Jewell College in Liberty, Missouri, USA.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction to Critical Thinking
2. John Watson and the 'Little Albert' Study: how to create a phobia?
3. The Nurture Assumption: Does Parental Influence during childhood offer
the greatest impact on personality development?
4.The Obedience Studies: Ordinary People and Extraordinary Evil?
5.On Being Sane in Insane Places: Pseudopatients or Pseudoscience?
6.The Stanford Prison Study: Are Ordinary People Capable of Extraordinary
Cruelty?
7.Media Research: Is Violent Media Making Us More Aggressive?
8.Recovered Memories: Do We Dare Trust Them?
9.The psi Studies: Psychological Science versus Pseudoscience
10.The Ethics of Caring about Human Beings
11.Benjamin Libet: Do Human Beings Really Have Free Will?
12.The Placebo Effect: How Do Antidepressants Work?
13.The Enriched Environment Studies: A NeuroscientificCase for Early
Learning?