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Author : Nicola Bruno
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 303166597X
Total Pages : 79 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (316 download)
Download or read book A Conceptual History of Psychophysics written by Nicola Bruno and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on with total page 79 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Nicola Bruno
Publisher : Palgrave Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 9783031665967
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (659 download)
Download or read book A Conceptual History of Psychophysics written by Nicola Bruno and published by Palgrave Macmillan. This book was released on 2024-09-03 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores the concept of psychophysics and details the development of the ideas which made the mathematisation of desire possible. The experience of desire accompanies us all throughout life, but dealing with it as psychologists and scientists is far from easy. Psychophysics was conceived to help map, mathematically, these unknowable feelings of desire. As such, this book will help to provide an accessible account of psychophysics while telling the story of its creation, which was, in essence, the birth of scientific psychology and contemporary cognitive neuroscience, alongside many of the technologies which characterize the contemporary world. It is a strange and intriguing story, which begins with the German physiologist Ernst Heinrich Weber in the first half of the nineteenth century, and its story will help the reader gain fresh insight into how scientists came to be able to map and quantify complex and private emotional states.
Author : Brian Hughes
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1350328227
Total Pages : 481 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (53 download)
Download or read book A Conceptual History of Psychology written by Brian Hughes and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2022-11-17 with total page 481 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What is modern psychology and how did it get here? How and why did psychology come to be the world's most popular science? A Conceptual History of Psychology charts the development of psychology from its foundations in ancient philosophy to the dynamic scientific field it is today. Emphasizing psychology's diverse global heritage, the book explains how, across centuries, human beings came to use reason, empiricism, and science to explore each other's thoughts, feelings, and behaviours. The book skilfully interweaves conceptual and historical issues to illustrate the contemporary relevance of history to the discipline. It shows how changing historical and cultural contexts have shaped the way in which modern psychology conceptualizes individuals, brains, personality, gender, cognition, consciousness, health, childhood, and relationships. This comprehensive textbook: - Helps students understand psychology through its origins, evolution and cultural contexts - Moves beyond a 'great persons and events' narrative to emphasize the development of the theoretical and practical concepts that comprise psychology - Highlights the work of minority and non-Western figures whose influential work is often overlooked in traditional accounts, providing a fuller picture of the field's development - Includes a range of engaging and innovative learning features to help students build and deepen a critical understanding of the subject - Draws on examples from contemporary politics, society and culture that bring key debates and historical milestones to life - Meets the requirements for the Conceptual and Historical Issues component of BPS-accredited Psychology degrees. This textbook will provide students with invaluable insight into the past, present and future of this exciting and vitally important field. Read more from Brian Hughes on his blog at thesciencebit.net
Author : George A. Gescheider
Publisher : Psychology Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 344 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Psychophysics written by George A. Gescheider and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 1985 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The problems of psychophysics -- the scientific study of the relationship between stimulus and sensation -- constitute some of the most basic problems of modern psychology. This book introduces students to the fundamentals of classical and modern psychophysics.
Author : David J. Murray
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317218582
Total Pages : 246 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (172 download)
Download or read book The Creation of Scientific Psychology written by David J. Murray and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-02-15 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With an emphasis on developments taking place in Germany during the nineteenth century, this book provides in-depth examinations of the key contributions made by the pioneers of scientific psychology. Their works brought measurement and mathematics into the study of the mind. Through unique analysis of measurement theory by Whewell, mathematical developments by Gauss, and theories of mental processes developed by Herbart, Weber, Fechner, Helmholtz, Müller, Delboeuf and others, this volume maps the beliefs, discoveries, and interactions that constitute the very origins of psychophysics and its offspring Experimental Psychology. Murray and Link expertly combine nuanced understanding of linguistic and historic factors to identify theoretical approaches to relating physicalintensities and psychological magnitudes. With an eye to interactions and influences on future work in the field, the volume illustrates the important legacy that mathematical developments in the nineteenth century have for twentieth and twenty-first century psychologists. This detailed and engaging account fills a deep gap in the history of psychology. The Creation of Scientific Psychology will appeal to researchers, academics, and students in the fields of history of psychology, psychophysics, scientific, and mathematical psychology.
Author : Brian Hughes
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 1350328200
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (53 download)
Download or read book A Conceptual History of Psychology written by Brian Hughes and published by . This book was released on 2022-11-03 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A comprehensive, thought-provoking new textbook covering the conceptual issues and theoretical developments in psychology while effortlessly bringing to life key historical milestones"--
Author : S.S. Stevens
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351495887
Total Pages : 344 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (514 download)
Download or read book Psychophysics written by S.S. Stevens and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-09-29 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Psychophysics is a lively account by one of experimental psychology's seminal figures of his lifelong scientific quest for general laws governing human behavior. It is a landmark work that captures the fundamental themes of Stevens's experimental research and his vision of what psycho-physics and psychology are and can be. The context of this modern classic is detailed by Lawrence Marks's pungent and highly revealing introduction. The search for a general psychophysical law—a mathematical equation relating sensation to stimulus—pervades this work, first published in 1975. Stevens covers methods of measuring human psychophysical behavior: magnitude estimation, magnitude production, and cross-modality matching are used to examine sensory mechanisms, perceptual processes, and social consensus. The wisdom in this volume lies in its exposition of an approach that can apply generally to the study of human behavior
Author : Edwin R. Wallace
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 0387347089
Total Pages : 883 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (873 download)
Download or read book History of Psychiatry and Medical Psychology written by Edwin R. Wallace and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2010-04-13 with total page 883 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book chronicles the conceptual and methodological facets of psychiatry and medical psychology throughout history. There are no recent books covering so wide a time span. Many of the facets covered are pertinent to issues in general medicine, psychiatry, psychoanalysis, and the social sciences today. The divergent emphases and interpretations among some of the contributors point to the necessity for further exploration and analysis.
Author : Derek C. Briggs
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000465810
Total Pages : 380 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (4 download)
Download or read book Historical and Conceptual Foundations of Measurement in the Human Sciences written by Derek C. Briggs and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-11-16 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Historical and Conceptual Foundations of Measurement in the Human Sciences explores the assessment and measurement of nonphysical attributes that define human beings: abilities, personalities, attitudes, dispositions, and values. The proposition that human attributes are measurable remains controversial, as do the ideas and innovations of the six historical figures—Gustav Fechner, Francis Galton, Alfred Binet, Charles Spearman, Louis Thurstone, and S. S. Stevens—at the heart of this book. Across 10 rich, elaborative chapters, readers are introduced to the origins of educational and psychological scaling, mental testing, classical test theory, factor analysis, and diagnostic classification and to controversies spanning the quantity objection, the role of measurement in promoting eugenics, theories of intelligence, the measurement of attitudes, and beyond. Graduate students, researchers, and professionals in educational measurement and psychometrics will emerge with a deeper appreciation for both the challenges and the affordances of measurement in quantitative research.
Author : Martin Farrell
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 110700599X
Total Pages : 465 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (7 download)
Download or read book Historical and Philosophical Foundations of Psychology written by Martin Farrell and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2014-06-19 with total page 465 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For students of the history of psychology, this textbook connects the big ideas and key thinkers of psychology and philosophy in a cohesive theoretical narrative. Students are led to understand the relations between different schools of thought, and to connect the various thinkers, theories and facts in psychology's history.
Author : Erica Fretwell
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781478010937
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (19 download)
Download or read book Sensory Experiments written by Erica Fretwell and published by . This book was released on 2020 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Erica Fretwell examines how psychophysics--a nineteenth-century scientific movement originating in Germany dedicated to the empirical study of sensory experience--became central to the process of creating human difference along the lines of race, gender, and ability in nineteenth-century America.
Author : Ludy T. Benjamin, Jr.
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 1119493242
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (194 download)
Download or read book A Brief History of Modern Psychology written by Ludy T. Benjamin, Jr. and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2018-10-30 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Brief History of Modern Psychology offers a concise account of the evolution of this dynamic field—from early pioneers of psychological theory to cutting-edge contemporary applications. In this revised third edition, leading scholar Ludy Benjamin surveys the significant figures, concepts, and schools of thought that have shaped modern psychology. Engaging and accessible narrative provides readers historical and disciplinary context to modern psychology and encourages further investigation of the topics and individuals presented. This book provides a solid foundational knowledge of psychology’s past, covering essential areas including prescientific psychology, physiology and psychophysics, early schools of German and American psychology, and the origins of applied psychology, behaviorism, and psychoanalysis. Exploration of 20th century and contemporary developments, including the emergence of clinical and cognitive psychology, ensures a complete overview of the field. The author integrates biographical information on widely recognized innovators such as Carl Jung, Wilhelm Wundt, and B.F. Skinner with lesser known figures including E.B. Titchener, Mary Calkins, and Leta Hollingworth. This personalistic approach to history allows readers to understand the theories, research, and practices of the individuals who laid the foundation to modern psychology.
Author : George A. Gescheider
Publisher : Psychology Press
ISBN 13 : 1134801297
Total Pages : 532 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (348 download)
Download or read book Psychophysics written by George A. Gescheider and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 2013-06-17 with total page 532 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This third edition of a classic text which was first published in 1976 is the only comprehensive, up-to-date presentation of psychophysics currently available. It has been used by undergraduate and graduate students, and scholars throughout the world and is consistently thought of as the best single source for learning the basic principles of psychophysics. The coverage of the field is comprehensive, including topics ranging from the classical methods of threshold measurement, to the modern methods of detection theory, to psychophysical scaling of sensation magnitude. The approach is one in which methods, theories, and applications are described for each experimental procedure. New features found in this third edition include: * methodological and theoretical contributions made in the field during this time period, * descriptions of adaptive procedures for measuring thresholds, context effects in scaling, theory of quantal fluctuations, multidimensional scaling, nonmetric scaling of sensory differences, and the relationship between the size of the DL and the slope of the sensation magnitude function, * new methods for measuring the observer's sensitivity of criterion and an expanded discussion of category scaling including the range frequency model and verbally labeled categories, and * methods used to control the observer's nonlinear use of numbers in magnitude estimation such as line-length scaling, magnitude matching, master scaling, and category-ratio scaling.
Author : David Marvin Green
Publisher : Peninsula Pub
ISBN 13 : 9780932146236
Total Pages : 505 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (462 download)
Download or read book Signal Detection Theory and Psychophysics written by David Marvin Green and published by Peninsula Pub. This book was released on 1988-01 with total page 505 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book summarizes the application of signal detection theory to the analysis an measurement of humn observer's sensor sysem. The theory provides a way to analyze what had been called the threshold or sensory limen, the basic unit of all discrimination studies, whether human or animal. The book outlines the theory of statisical decision making and its application to a variety of common psychophysical processes. It shows how signal detection theory can be used to separate sensory and decision aspects of responses in dicrimination. The concepts of the ideal observer and energy detector are presented and compared with human auditory detection data. Signal detection theory is appliced to a variety of other substanditive problemsin sensory psychology. Signal Detection Theory and Psychology is an invaluable book for psychologists dealing with sensory perception, especailly auditory, for psychologists studying discrimination in other cognitivie processes, and for human factor engineers dealing with man/machine interfaces.
Author : Helga Kolb
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (53 download)
Download or read book Webvision written by Helga Kolb and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : John D. Greenwood
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1139450247
Total Pages : 329 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (394 download)
Download or read book The Disappearance of the Social in American Social Psychology written by John D. Greenwood and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2003-11-24 with total page 329 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Disappearance of the Social in American Social Psychology is a critical conceptual history of American social psychology. In this challenging work, John Greenwood demarcates the original conception of the social dimensions of cognition, emotion and behaviour and of the discipline of social psychology itself, that was embraced by early twentieth-century American social psychologists. He documents how this fertile conception of social psychological phenomena came to be progressively neglected as the century developed, to the point that scarcely any trace of the original conception of the social remains in contemporary American social psychology. In a penetrating analysis. Greenwood suggests a number of subtle historical reasons why the original conception of the social came to be abandoned, stressing that none of these were particularly good reasons for the neglect of the original conception of the social. By demonstrating the historical contingency of this neglect, Greenwood indicates that what has been lost may once again be regained.
Author : Douglas W. Cunningham
Publisher : CRC Press
ISBN 13 : 1439865515
Total Pages : 402 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (398 download)
Download or read book Experimental Design written by Douglas W. Cunningham and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2011-11-17 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As computers proliferate and as the field of computer graphics matures, it has become increasingly important for computer scientists to understand how users perceive and interpret computer graphics. Experimental Design: From User Studies to Psychophysics is an accessible introduction to psychological experiments and experimental design, covering th
