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Frontmatter -- Contents -- CHAPTER 1 In the Beginning: The Greeks, Galen and the Influence of the East -- CHAPTER 2 Evolving Science: Ideas about the Mind from Descartes to Darwin -- CHAPTER 3 The Legend of Phineas Gage: The Beginnings of Neuropsychology -- CHAPTER 4 Psychophysics and Early Psychology Measuring Mental Abilities -- CHAPTER 5 The Unconscious Mind: Freud and Psychoanalysis -- CHAPTER 6 Nativist Beliefs: Early IQ Testing and the Emergence of Eugenics -- CHAPTER 7 The Behaviourist Challenge: Stimulus-Response Learning and the Challenge to Nativism -- CHAPTER 8 Psychology at Work: Early Applied Psychology, the Hawthorne Studies and the Human Relations Model -- CHAPTER 9 Testing Times: The Start of the Psychometric Industry and Approaches to Personality Testing -- CHAPTER 10 Understanding Social Life: Allport and Wundt, the Fathers of Social Psychology -- CHAPTER 11 The Gestalt School: Seeing the Whole as Different from the Sum of its Parts -- CHAPTER 12 Two Post-Freudians: Carl Jung and the Collective Unconscious and Adler’s Individual Psychology -- CHAPTER 13 Behaviourism Takes Hold: Little Albert, Operant Conditioning and Skinner’s Brave New World -- CHAPTER 14 The Developing Mind: Piaget, Gesell and Vygotsky’s Perspectives on Child-rearing -- CHAPTER 15 The Missing Link: Explaining Motivation Through Needs and Drives, and the Challenge from Maslow -- CHAPTER 16 The Humanist Movement: Emphasising the Whole Person -- CHAPTER 17 Psychology Goes to War: A Turning Point – Applied Psychology and Military Research -- CHAPTER 18 Explaining Nazism:s Psychoanalytic and Biological Explanations for Aggression -- CHAPTER 19 Conformity and Acquiescence: Asch and Milgram on Obedience -- CHAPTER 20 The Return of the Mind: Miller, Bruner and Neisser – Champions of the Cognitive Approach -- CHAPTER 21 Emotion and Stress: Fight or Flight, Stress and Psychoimmunology -- CHAPTER 22 Developing Relationships: Imprinting, Relationship Formation and the Maternal Deprivation Debate -- CHAPTER 23 Social Learning: Group Conflict, Norms and Leadership Styles -- CHAPTER 24 Changing Attitudes: Cognitive Dissonance, Attitude Measurement and Theories of Prejudice -- CHAPTER 25 Psychology in the Cold War: The Minnesota Starvation Studies and the CIA Mind-control Experiments -- CHAPTER 26 Challenging Psychiatric Orthodoxy: Criticisms of the Medical Model and the Anti-psychiatry Movement -- CHAPTER 27 Social Psychology in America: Personal Space, Measuring Attraction, Bystander Intervention and an Individualistic Approach -- CHAPTER 28 Social Psychology in Europe The Impact of Group Membership on Understanding and Behaviour, and the Shared Construction of Meaning -- CHAPTER 29 Global Psychology: From Japan and China to Russia, India and South America -- CHAPTER 30 Culture and Self: Frantz Fanon and Colonial Perspectives on Identity -- CHAPTER 31 The Growth of Neuropsychology: Neurotransmitters, Drugs, Sleep Deprivation, and the Surgical Identification of Brain Structures -- CHAPTER 32 Enter the Computer: Information-Processing Models of Cognition, Attention and Memory -- CHAPTER 33 Understanding Perception: Theories of How We Make Sense of What We Perceive -- CHAPTER 34 Control and Agency: Learned Helplessness, Locus of Control and Attribution Theory -- CHAPTER 35 The Social Child: Re-evaluating Piagetian Theory and the Socially Aware Child -- CHAPTER 36 The Nature/Nurture Debate Continues: Types of Intelligence Testing and its Controversies -- CHAPTER 37 From Helplessness to Optimism: Seligman and the Establishment of Positive Psychology -- CHAPTER 38 Making Decisions: Everyday Judgements and the Use of Heuristics – Kahneman’s System 1 and System 2 Thinking -- CHAPTER 39 Nodes, Networks and Neuroplasticity: The Classic Taxi Driver Study, Recovery from Stroke, Neural Networks and Social Emotions -- CHAPTER 40 A Methodological Revolution: Deconstructionism and Decolonisation, Challenges to Orthodox Research Methodology and WEIRD Sampling -- Index

"What really drives our decisions? Where do language and memory come from? Why do our minds sometimes seem to work against us? Psychologists have long attempted to answer these questions, seeking to understand human behaviour, feelings, and thoughts. But how to explore something so elusive? In this fascinating history, leading expert Nicky Hayes tells the story of psychology across the centuries and around the world. Hayes introduces key thinkers, including Carl Jung, Anna Freud, Frantz Fanon, and Daniel Kahneman. We see how they tried to expand our understanding, from Pavlov and his dogs to Milgram and his famous electric shock experiments to the CIA's secret mind-control projects. Hayes explores key concepts like child development, the inferiority complex, and PTSD and shows how psychological research has been used for both good and ill. This Little History shines a light on the ever-advancing study of psychology, how the field has evolved over time-and how much more we need to learn"-- Provided by publisher.