Forty Studies that Changed Psychology: Explorations into the History of Psychological Research (6th Edition)
Roger R. Hock
Language: English
Pages: 352
ISBN: 013603599X
Format: PDF / Kindle (mobi) / ePub
This unique book closes the gap between psychology textbooks and the research that made them possible by offering a first hand glimpse into 40 of the most famous studies in the history of the field, and subsequent studies that expanded upon each study's influence. Readers are able to grasp the process and excitement of scientific discovery as they experience an insider's look at the studies that continue today to be cited most frequently, stirred up the most controversy when they were first published, sparked the most subsequent related research, opened new fields of psychological exploration, and changed most dramatically our knowledge of human behavior.
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presented. However, if the patients were allowed to r e a c h u n d e r the screen with their left h a n d (still using only the right hemis p h e r e ) a n d t o u c h a selection of objects, they were always able to find the o n e that h a d b e e n presented visually. T h e right h e m i s p h e r e c a n think a b o u t and analyze objects as well. Gazzaniga r e p o r t e d that when the right h e m i s p h e r e was shown a picture of an item such as a cigarette, the participants could t o u
i e n c e . Stress is a very general t e r m and not easy to define, but o n e way of looking at it is to think of stress as any e x t r e m e emotional reaction. In this sense, e x t r e m e fear, anger, sadness, or even happiness could p r o d u c e stress. Think for a m o m e n t a b o u t the last time you were e x p e r i e n c ing a heavy load of stress: the kind of stress that lasts m o r e than a few hours or even a few days. Maybe you moved to a new city, had a legal problem, were
choices. F o r example, a m o n g biochemists Morton found that 8 3 % were left-brain oriented, while a m o n g astronomers only 2 9 % showed a left-brain preference (p. 3 1 9 ) . You can see how this would make sense in relation to Sperry and Gazzaniga's work. Biology and chemistry rely m o r e heavily on linguistic abilities, whereas astronomers must have greater abilities in spatial relationships ( n o pun intended). CONCLUSION Some have carried this, seperate-brain idea a step further and
study r e p o r t e d in this article, the researchers tested the h u m a n infants again for their ability to recognize facial forms. T h e infants were presented with six flat disks, e a c h 6 inches in diameter with the following designs: ( 1 ) a h u m a n face; ( 2 ) a bull's-eye; ( 3 ) a r a n d o m fragment of a printed page (such as a newspaper or t e x t b o o k ) ; ( 4 ) entirely red; ( 5 ) entirely fluorescent yellow; and ( 6 ) plain white. T h e time of the infants' first look at e a c
reestablished. T h e authors suggested that this overactivity and impulsiveness implied that the boys with ADHD possessed significantly less ability to c o p e with delays of reinforcement than did the c o m parison g r o u p of boys. Findings such as these a r e important additions to o u r understanding a n d o u r ability to treat ADHD effectively. CONCLUSION Superstitions a r e everywhere. You probably have some, and you surely know others who have them. S o m e superstitions a r e such a
