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Adventures of a Psychologist - Reflections on What Made Up the Mind (Paperback)
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Adventures of a Psychologist - Reflections on What Made Up the Mind (Paperback)
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In this enlightening biography, award- winning academic
psychologist Michael Corballis tells the story of how the field of
cognitive psychology evolved and the controversies and anecdotes
that occurred along the way. Since the Second World War, psychology
has undergone several scientific movements, from behaviourism to
cognitive psychology and finally to neuroscience. In this
fascinating biography, Corballis recounts his career as a
researcher who played a part in these monumental changes in
psychology. Beginning with his boarding-school education in New
Zealand, Corballis goes on to recount his PhD studies and
behavioural research into mirror-image discriminations in pigeons,
the uprising of the "cognitive revolution" amidst 1960s
counterculture and his switch to become a cognitive psychologist,
his research into brain asymmetry and the evolution of language and
its origin of manual gestures, and the development of mental time
travel in animals. Featuring stories of prominent scientists who
were integral in psychology's biggest discoveries and insight into
the heated debates and controversies in psychology during a time of
great scientific and sociocultural change, this biography is a
must-read for those interested in how psychology became established
as a science.
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