We cannot understand contemporary psychology without first researching its history. Unlike other books on the history of psychology, which are chronologically ordered, this Handbook is organized topically. It covers the history of ideas in multiple areas of the field and reviews the intellectual history behind the major topics of investigation. The evolution of psychological ideas is described alongside an analysis of their surrounding context. Readers learn how eminent psychologists draw on the context of their time and place for ideas and practices, and also how innovation in psychology is an ongoing dialogue between past, present, and anticipated future.
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Introduction Robert J. Sternberg and Wade E. Pickren; 1. Major paradigms and approaches in psychology John G. Benjafield; 2. Methodology in psychology Daniel J. Denis and Briana Young; 3. Neuroscience in psychology Gary G. Berntson and David Hothersall; 4. Sensation and perception Linda M. Bartoshuk; 5. Attention Michael I. Posner; 6. Learning Mark Bouton and Robert Boakes; 7. Memory Henry L. Roediger, III, and Jeremy K. Yamashiro; 8. Decision making Yuval Erez and Valerie F. Reyna; 9. Creativity Christa L. Taylor, Vlad P. Glavenau, Allison B. Kaufman and James C. Kaufman; 10. Intelligence Robert J. Sternberg; 11. Development Jeremy Burman; 12. Social psychology Cathy Faye; 13. Gender Alexandra Rutherford; 14. Emotion David Devonis; 15. Motivation Richard M. Ryan, Emma L. Bradshaw and Edward L. Deci; 16. Personality and its assessment James N. Butcher; 17. Abnormal psychology Petteri Pietikainen; 18. Psychotherapy Roderick D. Buchanan and Nicholas O. Haslam; 19. Health psychology Wade E. Pickren.
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'The famous statement that psychology has a long past but a short history reflects the fact that empirical psychology is a relatively new arrival among the sciences, but that the fascination with psychological topics has been around for thousands of years. This volume by Robert J. Sternberg and Wade E. Pickren successfully melds the discipline's past and history. Readers get a seamless path from philosophy to natural philosophy to scientific psychology across its many sub-disciplines. Unlike standard histories of psychology, this book shows the breadth of psychology as it has evolved to its present state.' Barney Beins, Ithaca College, New York
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Describes how psychological ideas have evolved across numerous research areas within psychology.

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ISBN
9781108418690
Publisert
2019-05-16
Utgiver
Vendor
Cambridge University Press
Vekt
1140 gr
Høyde
260 mm
Bredde
181 mm
Dybde
32 mm
Aldersnivå
P, U, 06, 05
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Innbundet
Antall sider
452

Biographical note

Robert J. Sternberg is Professor of Human Development at Cornell University, New York and Honorary Professor of Psychology at the Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg, Germany. He has also won the William James Award and the James McKeen Cattell Award from Association for Political Science (APS) and the Grawemeyer Award in Psychology. He is past-president of the American Psychological Association. Wade E. Pickren is Director of the Center for Faculty Excellence at Ithaca College, New York. He was the founding director of the American Psychological Association (APA) Archives and served as its first historian. He also served as editor of History of Psychology from 2010 to 15.