In the beginning : the Greeks, Galen and the influence of the east -- Evolving science : ideas about the mind from Descartes to Darwin -- The legend of Phineas Gage : the beginnings of neuropsychology -- Psychophysics and early psychology : measuring mental abilities -- The unconscious mind : Freud and psychoanalysis -- Nativist beliefs : early IQ testing and the emergence of eugenics -- The behaviourist challenge : stimulus-response learning and the challenge to nativism -- Psychology at work : early applied psychology, the Hawthorne studies and the human relations model -- Testing times : the start of the psychometric industry and approaches to personality testing -- Understanding social life : Allport and Wundt, the fathers of social psychology -- The Gestalt School : seeing the whole as different from the sum of its parts -- Two post-Freudians : Carl Jung and the collective unconscious and Adler's individual psychology -- Behaviourism takes hold : little Albert, Operant conditioning and Skinner's brave new world -- The developing mind : Piaget, Gesell and Vygotsky's perspectives on child-rearing -- The missing link : Explaining motivation through needs and drives, and the challenge from Maslow -- The humanist movement : emphasising the whole person -- Psychology goes to war : a turning point - applied psychology and military research -- Explaining Nazism : psychoanalytic and biological explanations for aggression -- Conformity and acquiescence : Asch and Milgram on obedience -- The return of the mind : Miller, Bruner and Neisser - champions of the cognitive approach -- Emotion and stress : Fight or flight, stress and psychoimmunology -- Developing relationships : imprinting, relationship formation and the maternal deprivation debate -- Social learning : group conflict, norms and leadership styles -- Changing attitudes : cognitive dissonance, attitude measurement and theories of prejudice -- Psychology in the Cold War : the Minnesota Starvation Studies and the CIA mind-control experiments -- Challenging psychiatric orthodoxy : criticisms of the medical model and the anti-psychiatry movement -- Social psychology in Europe : the impact of group membership on understanding and behaviour, and the shared construction of meaning -- Global psychology : from Japan and Chinda to Russia, India and South America -- Culture and self : Frantz Fanon and colonial perspectives on identity -- The growth of neuropsychology : neurotransmitters, drugs, sleep deprivation, and the surgical identification of brain structures -- Enter the computer : information-processing models of cognitions, attention and memory -- Understanding perception : theories of how w make sense of what we perceive -- Control and agency : learned helplessness, locus of control and attribution theory -- The social child : re-evaluation Piagetian theory and the socially aware child -- The nature/nurture debate continues : types of intelligence testing and its controversies -- From helplessness to optimism : Seligman and the establishment of positive psychology -- Making decisions : everyday judgements and the use of heuristics - Kahneman's system 1 and system 2 thinking -- Nodes, networks and neuroplasticity : the classic taxi driver study, recovery from Stroke, neural networks and social emotions -- A methodological revolution : deconstructionism and decolonization, challenges to orthodox research methodology and WEIRD sampling.
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