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Opening Skinner's box : great psychological experiments of the 20th century / Lauren Slater

By: Slater, Lauren.
Publisher: London : Bloomsbury, c2005Description: x, 276 p. ; 20 cm.ISBN: 978074756860 (pbk.); 9780747568605 (pbk.).Other title: Opening Skinner's box : great psychological experiments of the twentieth century.Subject(s): Psychology -- Experiments -- History -- 20th centuryDDC classification: 150.72
Contents:
1. Opening Skinner's box : B.F. Skinner's rat race. 2. Obscura : Stanley Milgram and obedience to authority. 3. On being sane in insane places : experimenting with psychiatric diagnosis. 4. In the unlikely event of a water landing : Darley and Latané's training manual- a five-stage approach. 5. Quieting the mind : the experiments of Leon Festinger. 6. Monkey love : Harry Harlow's primates. 7. Rat park : the radical addiction experiment. 8. Lost in the mall : the false memory experiment. 9. Memory Inc : Eric Kandel's sea slug experiment. 10. Chipped : this century's most radical mind cures.
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Main Collection Taylor's Library-TC

Floor 4, Shelf 38 , Side 1, TierNo 4, BayNo 2

150.72 SLA (Browse shelf) 1 Available SAMxx,01000,03,GR 5000096941

Includes bibliographical references (p. [255]-265) and index

1. Opening Skinner's box : B.F. Skinner's rat race. 2. Obscura : Stanley Milgram and obedience to authority. 3. On being sane in insane places : experimenting with psychiatric diagnosis. 4. In the unlikely event of a water landing : Darley and Latané's training manual- a five-stage approach. 5. Quieting the mind : the experiments of Leon Festinger. 6. Monkey love : Harry Harlow's primates. 7. Rat park : the radical addiction experiment. 8. Lost in the mall : the false memory experiment. 9. Memory Inc : Eric Kandel's sea slug experiment. 10. Chipped : this century's most radical mind cures.

Psychology : 2PSC20