Opening Skinner's Box: Great Psychological Experiments of the Twentieth Century

by Lauren Slater | Philosophy | This book has not been rated.
ISBN: 9780747568605 Global Overview for this book
Registered by futurecat of Christchurch, Canterbury New Zealand on 12/29/2009
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Journal Entry 1 by futurecat from Christchurch, Canterbury New Zealand on Tuesday, December 29, 2009
Went to Scorpios today to splurge a bit of Christmas money.

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Journal Entry 2 by futurecat from Christchurch, Canterbury New Zealand on Saturday, January 23, 2010
I'm doing another psych paper next semester, so this was a very suitable bit of summer reading to get me back into that frame of mind. Most of the experiments described would be familiar to anyone who's opened a first-year textbook, but they're told here in a more narrative way, and the focus is more personal, about the psychologists who carried out the experiments, their participants, and the ways they changed the way we think about the brain. At times the author got a bit too personal for my taste, flitting off into vague philosophical ramblings about how she felt about things, but generally she got the tone about right for a popular science book, illustrating the fascinations and frustrations of a science still very much in its infancy.

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