Title: Classic experiments in psychology /
Authors: Mook, Douglas G., 1934-
Publisher: Greenwood Press,
Year: 2004
Subjects: Psychology Experiments; Psychology, Experimental methods; History, 18th Century; History, 19th Century; History, 20th Century; Psychology, Experimental history
Abstract: "This book presents, in more depth than textbook treatment permits, the background, conduct, and implications of a selection of classic experiments in psychology. The selection is designed to be diverse showing that even for research in vastly different areas of study, the logic of research remains the same - as do its traps and pitfalls. This book will broaden and deepen the understanding of experimental methods in psychological research, examining where the research questions come from, how questions can be turned into experiments, and how researchers have faced the problems presented by research in psychology."--Jacket.
Contents: Part 1: About experiments -- A brief history of experimental psychology. -- Part 2: Hermann von Helmholtz and the nerve impulse -- Paul Broca and the speech center -- Karl Lashley : brain mechanisms and learning -- James Olds : reward systems in the brain -- Vincent Dethier : feeding in a fly -- S.P. Grossman : chemical coding in the brain -- Roger Sperry and the bisected brain. -- Part 3: Neal Miller : fear as a learnable drive -- Neal Miller : conflict -- David McClelland on achievement motivation -- Harry Harlow : a tale of two mothers -- Nikolaas Tinbergen : the study of instinct -- Teitelbaum and Epstein: hunger, thirst, and the brain -- Schachter and Singer : cognition and emotion -- Herman and Polivy : human hunger and cognition -- Walter Mischel and self-control.