Perspectives in Psychological Experimentation

One response to questions about the future of psychology is to attempt an answer to another question: What have we learned from psychology's past? First published in 1984, reissued with a new preface, this book presents a collection of papers by authorities with international reputations in various fields of psychology at the time.

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Viktor Sarris and Allen Parducci

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New Preface for the Reissue. Foreword. Preface. 1. The Experimental Approach: Dead End or Via Regia of Psychology Allen Parducci and Viktor Sarris Part I: Historical Developmental and General Methodology 2. The Experimental Method in Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century Psychology Michael Wertheimer 3. Experimentation and the Myth of the Incorrigible Kenneth J. Gergen 4. Contemporary Aspects of Psychological Experimentation Ruben Ardila Part II: Basic Processes of Animal Learning and Memory 5. Learning in Man and Other Animals M.E. Bitterman 6. Animal Memory - as Compared with Human Memory Lajos Kardos 7. The Future Study of Learning and Memory from a Psychobiological Perspective Norman E. Spear Part III: Perceptual and Cognitive Psychology 8. The Construction and Limitation of Consciousness George Mandler 9. Perceptual and Mnemonic Functions: A Psychological Paradigm Damián Ková 10. Perceptual and Judgmental Relativity Allen Parducci 11. Perceptual Processings of Words and Drawings Paul Fraisse 12. Studies in Text Comprehension: Toward a Model for Learning from Reading Walter Kintsch and Eileen Kintsch Part IV: Differential, Social, and Developmental Psychology 13. The Biology of Individual Differences Hans Jürgen Eysenck 14. Biological Determination of Personality Dimensions Jan Strelau 15. The Situation in an Interactional Paradigm of Personality Research David Magnusson 16. Perspectives in Human Motivational Psychology: A New Experimental Paradigm Julius Kuhl and John W. Atkinson 17. Social Psychology: What it is, Where it Came From, and Where it is Headed Philip G. Zimbardo 18. From Traditional Factor Analysis to Structural - Causal Modeling in Developmental Research John R. Nesselroade and Paul B. Baltes Part V: Clinical and Applied Psychology 19. Information Processing in Psychopathology Mitchell L. Kietzman, Joseph Zubin and Stuart Steinhauer 20. Nonspecific Factors and Drug Placebo Response in Psychiatry Robert W. Downing and Karl Rickels 21. New Approaches in Behavior Therapy Research Johannes C. Brengelmann 22. Decision Analysis: A Nonpsychological Psychotechnology Ward Edwards. Epilogue: The Future of Experimental Psychology - Toward the Year 2000 Viktor Sarris and Allen Parducci. Author Index. Subject Index.