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Forty Studies that Changed Psychology: Explorations into the History of Psychological Research, Fifth Edition

by Roger R. Hock, Ph.D. - Mendocino College

Publisher: Prentice Hall

Publishing Date: 2004/06/29

eText ISBN-10

0-13-128944-6

eText ISBN-13

978-0-13-128944-4

Print ISBN-10

0-13-114729-3

Print ISBN-13

978-0-13-114729-4

Table of Contents

1. Biology and Human Behavior, 1

One Brain or Two?, 1

More Experience = Bigger Brain?, 11

Are You a “Natural”?, 18

Watch Out for the Visual Cliff!, 26

2. Perception and Consciousness, 34

What You See is What You’ve Learned, 35

To Sleep, No Doubt To Dream . . ., 41

Unromancing the Dream . . ., 48

Acting as If You are Hypnotized, 55

3. Learning and Conditioning, 64

It’s Not Just About Salivating Dogs!, 64

Little Emotional Albert, 71

Knock Wood!, 77

See Aggression . . . Do Aggression!, 84

4. Intelligence, Cognition, and Memory, 93

What You Expect is What You Get, 93

Just How are You Intelligent?, 100

Maps in Your Mind, 109

Thanks for the Memories!, 116

5. Human Development, 126

Discovering Love, 126

Out of Sight, But Not Out of Mind, 134

How Moral are You?, 142

In Control and Glad of It!, 150

6. Emotion and Motivation, 158

A Sexual Motivation . . ., 158

I Can See It All Over Your Face!, 168

Life, Change, and Stress, 175

Thoughts Out of Tune, 183

7. Personality, 191

Are You the Master of Your Fate?, 192

Masculine or Feminine . . . or Both?, 199

Racing Against Your Heart, 210

The One; The Many . . ., 217

8. Psychopathology, 226

Who’s Crazy Here, Anyway?, 226

You’re Getting Defensive Again!, 234

Learning to Be Depressed, 242

Crowding into the Behavioral Sink, 249

9. Psychotherapy, 258

Choosing Your Psychotherapist, 258

Relaxing Your Fears Away, 264

Projections of Who You are, 272

Picture This!, 279

10. Social Psychology, 287

Not Practicing What You Preach, 287

The Power of Conformity, 295

To Help or Not to Help, 300

Obey at Any Cost?, 308

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