Peters, Elisa (Ed.)

Psychology / edited by Elisa Peters and Hope Lourie Killcoyne. - First edition - New York, NY : Britannica Educational Publishing, 2016. - xii, 148 pages : color illustrations ; 24 cm. - The Britannica guide to the social sciences .

Includes bibliographical references, glossary and index.

Introduction -- Chapter 1: Psychology: Early History to the Present -- Behaviourism -- Freud and His Followers -- After World War II -- The Impact of the Cognitive Revolution -- Linking Mind, Brain, and Behaviour -- The Evolving Scope and Structure of Psychological Science -- Chapter 2: The Thought Process -- Developments in the Study of Thought -- Types of Thinking -- Chapter 3: Memory -- Time-Dependent Aspects of Memory -- Retrieval -- Forgetting -- Chapter 4: Personality -- Physiological Type Theories -- Psychoanalytic Theories -- Trait Theories -- Modern Trends -- Chapter 5: Influential Figures in Psychology -- Wilhelm Wundt -- William James -- Josef Breuer -- G. Stanley Hall -- Ivan Petrovich Pavlov -- Sigmund Freud -- Alfred Adler -- Edouard Claparede -- Carl Jung -- John B. Watson -- Clark L. Hull -- Wolfgang Kohler -- Anna Freud -- Jean Piager -- Erik H. Erikson -- B.F. Skinner -- Albert Bandura -- Daniel Kahneman -- Conclusion

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