A History of Modern Psychology
By Duane P. Schultz, Sydney Ellen Schultz
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A market leader for over 30 years, A HISTORY OF MODERN PSYCHOLOGY has been praised for its comprehensive coverage and biographical approach. Focusing on modern psychology, the text's coverage begins with the late 19th century. The authors personalize the history of psychology not only by using biographical information on influential theorists, but also by showing how the major events in the theorists' lives affected their ideas, approaches, and methods. Substantial updates in the eleventh edition include discussions of the latest developments in positive psychology; the increasing role of brain science in psychology; the return of Freud's anal personality; Ada Lovelace, the virgin "Bride of Science"; the interpretation of dreams by computers; the use of Coca Cola as a "nerve tonic," and many other topics. The result is a text that is as timely and relevant today as it was when it was first introduced.
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A market leader for over 30 years, A HISTORY OF MODERN PSYCHOLOGY has been praised for its comprehensive coverage and biographical approach. Focusing on modern psychology, the text's coverage begins with the late 19th century. The authors personalize the history of psychology not only by using biographical information on influential theorists, but also by showing how the major events in the theorists' lives affected their ideas, approaches, and methods. Substantial updates in the eleventh edition include discussions of the latest developments in positive psychology; the increasing role of brain science in psychology; the return of Freud's anal personality; Ada Lovelace, the virgin "Bride of Science"; the interpretation of dreams by computers; the use of Coca Cola as a "nerve tonic," and many other topics. The result is a text that is as timely and relevant today as it was when it was first introduced.
Coverage of new topics in cognitive psychology includes embedded cognition, cognitive neuroscience, neuroprosthetics, evolutionary psychology, animal personality and intelligence, artificial intelligence, and unconscious cognition.
Reviewers praise the authors' ability to tell the history of psychology in a way that avoids dry narrative. In part, this is because they personalize the content by showing students how events in the lives of influential theorists and researchers affected the theorists' ideas, approaches, and methods.
Each chapter opens with a "teaser" narrative built around a person or event that introduces the major theme of the chapter, conveying to students that history is about real people and real situations. Topics include the 1909 drug bust against the "deadly" substance caffeine, and Priscilla the Fastidious Pig, who beat B.F. Skinner at a game of tic-tac-toe.
The In Their Own Words sections provide original writings by the key figures in the history of psychology, presenting in each theorist's distinctive personal style (and the style of the times) a unique perspective on psychology's methods, problems, and goals.
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