Adventures of a Psychologist

<p>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. </p><p>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. </p><p>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. </p> <p>Preface</p><ol> <p> </p> <li>Growing Up</li> <p> </p> <li>Floundering at University</li> <p> </p> <li>Hello Psychology</li> <p> </p> <li>O God! O Montreal!</li> <p> </p> <li>Rats and Pigeons</li> <p> </p> <li>Revolutions</li> <p> </p> <li>The Lopsided Brain</li> <p> </p> <li>Doing the Splits</li> <p> </p> <li>Mirrors</li> <p> </p> <li>Gestures, Gestures</li> <p> </p> <li>On Time</li> <p> </p> <li>Chomsky, God, and Language</li> <p> </p> <li>Professional Psychology and its Discontents</li> <p> </p> <li>Anti-science</li> <p> </p> <li>A Brief Reckoning</li> </ol>