Tag: Psychology
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Sensory & Conceptual Processing
Ellis, G. (2018) ‘Top-down effects in the brain’, Physics of Life Reviews. Elsevier B.V.
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Reaction Time & Behaviourism
Skinner, B. F. and Hunt, E.B. (1992) ‘‘Superstition’ in the Pigeon’, Journal of Experimental Psychology: General. Washington D.C., American Psychological Association, 121(3), pp. 273–274 [Online].
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Commercial Psychology
A psychological experiment conducted by the army through Eastman Kodak Company advertisements as explained by Robert Yerkes in 1912.
Yerkes, R. M. et al. (1912) ‘The class experiment in psychology with advertisements as materials’, Journal of Educational Psychology. Warwick & York, 3(1), pp. 1–17. doi: 10.1037/h0072656.
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Electroshock Therapy
A device “for giving general electric treatment for psychological effect, in psycho-neurotic cases” during the war. The electroconvulsive therapy was first used on a human being in 1938.
Bergonic Chair by Otis Historical Archives National Museum of Health and Medicine under CC BY 2.0.
