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Heredity Environment
Heredity, Environment, and The Question How by Anne Anastasi was originally presented as an address of the President (Division of General Psychology) of the American Psychological Association in 1957. This child psychology and nature nurture debate classic argues that the question "How?" offers a much more constructive approach to the heredity-environment problem; as opposed to the question "Which one?" or "How much?" typically posited by psychologists.
Category:PsychologyReads:545Uploaded:08 / 25 / 2011ShareAdd to collectionRational Psychotherapy and Individual Psychology
Rational Psychotherapy and Individual Psychology by Albert Ellis is one of the first published accounts of rational psychotherapy; a theory of personality and a system of therapeutic technique that would eventually develop into what is now known as rational emotive behavior therapy.
Category:PsychologyReads:185Uploaded:08 / 23 / 2011ShareAdd to collectionPsychology as the Behaviorist Views It
Psychology as the behaviorist views it was originally presented as a lecture by John B Watson at Columbia University in 1913. This landmark address would become known forever as the "behaviorist manifesto" and bestow on Watson the title of "father of behaviorism." This classic publication is essential reading for psychology students, educators and professionals.
Category:PsychologyReads:281Uploaded:08 / 17 / 2011ShareAdd to collectionSignificant Aspects of Client Centered Therapy by Carl Rogers
Significant Aspects of Client Centered Therapy by Carl Rogers is a must read for anybody interested in psychotherapy and counseling. In this landmark publication Carl Rogers outlines the origins of client centered therapy, the process of client-centered therapy, the discovery and capacity of the client and the client-centered nature of the therapeutic relationship.
Category:PsychologyReads:743Uploaded:07 / 11 / 2011ShareAdd to collectionJohn Dewey: What is Thought?
This classic paper was first published as chapter 1 in Dewey's iconic book How We Think in 1910.
Category:Books - Non-fictionReads:400Uploaded:11 / 03 / 2010ShareAdd to collectionPsychology Newsletter Sept2010
The All About Psychology Newsletter is designed to be useful and engaging whatever your connection with psychology - student, educator, professional or general interest.
Category:Magazines/NewspapersReads:325Uploaded:09 / 27 / 2010ShareAdd to collectionFritz Heider: An Experimental Study of Apparent Behavior
An Experimental Study of Apparent Behavior by Fritz Heider & Marianne Simmel was a landmark study in the field of interpersonal perception, in particular in relation to the attribution process when making judgments of others. Before reading the published research head over to the All About Psychology website via the following link and watch the video which was central to the authors methodological design. http://www.all-about-psychology.com/fritz-heider.html By doing this it will allow you to fully appreciate the thinking behind the experiment as well as allowing you to compare your responses with the original sample of subjects from 1944!
Category:PsychologyReads:1,259Uploaded:09 / 22 / 2010ShareAdd to collectionPsychologists and Cartoonists
Interesting insight into the public image of psychology in the early 1960's.
Category:PsychologyReads:924Uploaded:09 / 13 / 2010ShareAdd to collectionPsychology Student Survival Guide
Based on my experiences as a student and then a lecturer in the subject and drawing on content from my psychology website (http://www.all-about-psychology.com/) I've put together a survival guide for psychology students. In producing the Psychology Student Survival Guide I've kept one main thought in mind; namely, if I was to go through my psychology education again - beginning when I first started considering studying the topic, right through to graduation and beyond - what information and resources would I most like to have at my disposal? The primary aim of the Psychology Student Survival Guide, therefore, is to provide an easy to use online reference tool that people can use to quickly locate the information they require.
Category:PsychologyReads:2,145Uploaded:08 / 18 / 2010ShareAdd to collectionFunctional Fixedness
Building on the classic research of karl duncker which introduced the world to the candle problem, author Robert Adamson presents a repetition of three experiments exploring Functional fixedness as related to problem solving.
Category:ResearchReads:1,811Uploaded:07 / 09 / 2010ShareAdd to collection
