Psychology Revivals
About the Book Series
Psychology Revivals is an initiative aiming to re-issue a wealth of academic works which have long been unavailable. Following the success of the Routledge Revivals programme, this time encompassing a vast range from across the Behavioural Sciences, Psychology Revivals draws upon a distinguished catalogue of imprints and authors associated with both Routledge and Psychology Press, restoring to print books by some of the most influential scholars of the last 120 years.
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Artificial Intelligence: Research Directions in Cognitive Science: European Perspectives Vol. 5
1st Edition
Edited
By D. Sleeman, N. O. Bernsen
June 17, 2021
Originally published in 1992, this title reviews seven major subareas in artificial intelligence at that time: knowledge acquisition; logic programming and representation; machine learning; natural language; vision; the design of an AI programming environment; and medicine, a major application area...
Obese Humans and Rats (Psychology Revivals)
1st Edition
By Stanley Schacter, Judith Rodin
March 31, 2021
Originally published in 1974, this volume examines the behavioural similarities of obese humans and animals whose so-called feeding centre (the ventro-medial hypothalamic nuclei) has been lesioned. Both the obese human and the VMH-lesioned animal seem to share a hyposensitivity to the internal (...
Some Personality Determinants of the Effects of Participation
1st Edition
By Victor H. Vroom
December 07, 2020
Originally published in 1960, this study was carried out as part of the research of the Organizational Behavior and Human Relations Program of the Institute of Social Research. The primary purpose was to determine the effects of participation in decision-making on people with different personality ...
Voices of Feminist Therapy
1st Edition
Edited
By Elizabeth Friar Williams
December 12, 2019
Feminist therapy was created in the late 1960s, concurrent with the founding of The Association for Women in Psychology. Its early practitioners had diverse lifestyles, backgrounds, and often unconventional training, but all had a common and radical goal of providing an alternative therapy for ...
Culture and Family: Problems and Therapy
1st Edition
By Wen-Shing Tseng, Jing Hsu
June 14, 2019
Originally published in 1991, this landmark guide gave brilliant insights on dealing with the cultural aspects of family mental health. It systematically reviews various dimensions of the family from a cross-cultural perspective, including system, development, behaviour, and functioning. It then ...
Drugs, Daydreaming, and Personality: A Study of College Youth
1st Edition
By Bernard Segal, George J. Huba, Jerome L. Singer
June 12, 2019
Originally published in 1980, this book presents a detailed account of a series of investigations that examined the patterns of resort to drugs and alcohol use in college youth, and how such substance uses are linked to personality characteristics and daydreaming patterns. The Editors chose to ...
The Psychology of Questions
1st Edition
Edited
By Arthur C. Graesser, John B. Black
June 12, 2019
Originally published in 1985, the chapters in this volume collectively approach the phenomenon of questioning from many perspectives. There are studies on question comprehension, question answering, question asking and the influence of adjunct questions on text comprehension and memory. The ...
Applications of Conditioning Theory
1st Edition
Edited
By Graham Davey
May 21, 2019
The area of applied psychology known as behaviour modification or behaviour therapy had progressed remarkably in the ten years, prior to publication. Illustrative of this progress is the variety of therapeutic and behaviour management techniques now available to the applied psychologist. This ...
Artificial Intelligence: An Introduction
1st Edition
By Alan Garnham
May 21, 2019
First published in 1987, this book provides a stimulating introduction to artificial intelligence (AI) - the science of thinking machines. After a general introduction to AI, including its history, tools, research methods, and its relation to psychology, Garnham gives an account of AI research in ...
The Psychology of Thinking
1st Edition
By Neil Bolton
May 21, 2019
In this concise and lucid survey, originally published in 1972, the author considers the major theoretical perspectives influential in the psychology of thinking at the time. They are looked at in relation to the problems which they are designed to answer and their success in accounting for the ...
Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder: Contemporary Issues in Treatment
1st Edition
Edited
By Wayne K. Goodman, Matthew V. Rudorfer, Jack D. Maser
February 21, 2019
Obsessive-compulsive disorder is now recognized to be a serious and chronic illness affecting more than 2% of the population. While the last decade of the twentieth century witnessed many advances on both the pharmacological and the behavioral fronts, fewer than 50% of cases benefitted ...
Operant Conditioning: An Experimental Analysis of Behaviour
1st Edition
By Derek E. Blackman
February 21, 2019
The approach to psychology advocated by the radical behaviourists was often misunderstood and frequently gave rise to controversy. Originally published in 1974, this book introduced current research in operant conditioning and explains the attempt to understand behaviour inherent in such ...