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Adventures of a Psychologist Michael Corballis

Adventures of a Psychologist By Michael Corballis

Adventures of a Psychologist by Michael Corballis

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Adventures of a Psychologist traces the developments in academic psychology across the last 60 years.

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Adventures of a Psychologist: Reflections on What Made Up the Mind by Michael Corballis

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.

Adventures of a Psychologist Reviews

Michael Corballis is among the world's deepest and most creative cognitive scientists, and he illuminates every subject he takes on with insight, wit, and charm. We're fortunate that he has stepped back to and applied these gifts to the science of mind. -Steven Pinker, Johnstone Professor of Psychology, Harvard University, and the author of How the Mind Works.

Librarians will struggle to decide which shelf to put this book on. Autobiography, yes, with fascinating history of Corballis' own route from sheep farm to academic cognitive neuroscience. History of psychology, also, with personal experience of the competing movements that have swung the discipline about-behaviourism, the cognitive revolution, left-wing politics, postmodernism-all discussed with clarity and humour, but always including constructive argument for how science should be done. And above all else, this is entertainment: Corballis is never ponderous, but sets out important issues and serious life events with modesty and a light-touch which makes it a pleasurable read and a hard book to put down. -Richard Byrne, Emeritus Professor of Psychology, University of St Andrews.

Sex may be the ever interesting topic, as they say, but it is closely followed by biography, especially autobiography (though nowadays we seem to prefer the term memoir), as we can learn so much about ourselves from seeing how others have fared. And what better than the brain/mind interface? And who better a guide than Prof Michael Corballis, a towering figure in neuropsychology for over half a century of prolific, masterful and ever enthralling writing? -John L. Bradshaw, Emeritus Professor of Psychology, Monash University, and the author of Reflections of a Neuropsychologist.

About Michael Corballis

Michael Corballis was Professor of Psychology at McGill University and the University of Auckland. He has published widely in experimental psychology and cognitive neuroscience. In 2003 he was appointed Officer of the New Zealand Order of Merit, and in 2016 he received the Rutherford Medal, New Zealand's top scientific award.

Table of Contents

Preface

  2. Growing Up

  4. Floundering at University

  6. Hello Psychology

  8. O God! O Montreal!

  10. Rats and Pigeons

  12. Revolutions

  14. The Lopsided Brain

  16. Doing the Splits

  18. Mirrors

  20. Gestures, Gestures

  22. On Time

  24. Chomsky, God, and Language

  26. Professional Psychology and its Discontents

  28. Anti-science

  30. A Brief Reckoning

Additional information

NPB9780367420536
9780367420536
0367420538
Adventures of a Psychologist: Reflections on What Made Up the Mind by Michael Corballis
Michael Corballis
New
Hardback
Taylor & Francis Ltd
2020-12-08
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