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• Psychology, Experimental—Textbooks [Browse]
• Psychophysiology [Browse]

Series

McGraw-Hill publications in psychology. [More in this series]

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"A basic text for a brief course in experimental psychology, this text is designed to introduce the subject entirely through exposition to students who have had a first course in general psychology. Not a laboratory manual, but rather a description of how scientific psychology evolves, it was written to include students for whom laboratories are not available. The text provides first, a brief historical survey of experimental psychology; next, an exposition of experimental method as applied to psychology; and then a description of the conventional "psychophysical methods." Each of a series of short chapters that follow is devoted to a description of one or two typical investigations in the field. The development of the text is based on the assumption that all psychology that has been derived by experimental method is experimental psychology, regardless of the types of problems or the particular area. Most of the material is comparatively recent and represents current trends in psychology. Additional material is offered on perception, physiological psychology, and industrial and legal psychology"--Foreword. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2008 APA, all rights reserved).

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